TRUTH Social CEO and former GOP congressman Devin Nunes (R-CA) said Peter Navarro was arrested last week to help the Jan. 6 House select committee “boost ratings” for Thursday’s televised hearings.
Navarro was arrested by the FBI at an airport in Tennessee. He was indicted by a federal grand jury Friday on two counts of contempt of Congress.
The Department of Justice arrested him, citing his “failure to comply with a subpoena issued by the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 breach of the United States Capitol.”
“What they did to Peter Navarro last Friday was all in anticipation to boost ratings for this latest launch of their latest Hollywood film,” Nunes said, apparently unconcerned with Congress’s ability to enforce a subpoena and exercise oversight as part of the systems of checks and balances created by the U.S. Constitution.