Navarro said he has been summoned to testify before a grand federal jury on Thursday and to provide any documents related to his refusal to comply with a February summons he received from the select committee of the House investigating the attack on the Capitol. of the United States, including any communication. with former President Donald Trump. The New York Times was the first to report that Navarro, Trump’s former business adviser, said he had been summoned by federal prosecutors. In April, the House voted in favor of recommending that Navarro be referred to the Justice Department on charges of criminal contempt in Congress for refusing to comply with his summons.
The grand jury’s summons was revealed in a draft copy of a lawsuit filed by CNN that Navarro says he intends to file against the House Select Committee, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the North American Attorney. District of Columbia.
Navarro represents himself in the lawsuit, which has not yet been filed in court, and seeks to persuade a federal judge to block both the subpoena of the House committee and the subpoena of the grand jury, which he says are illegal. legal.
Navarro said in the draft lawsuit that the grand jury’s subpoena was handed out Thursday when two FBI special agents “knocked hard on my door early in the morning.”
CNN has asked Navarro to watch a copy of the grand jury citation. CNN has also contacted the U.S. Attorney’s Office in DC for comment.
Navarro has made public his attempts to work with the Trump campaign to subvert the 2020 presidential election.
In a recent book, the former White House business adviser details a plan called “Green Bay Sweep,” which was to persuade state leaders in various oscillating states to question election results in an attempt to delay and eventually avoid election certification.
Navarro maintains in the book that he was among the “last three people in God’s green land who wanted to see violence break out” on January 6, 2021, counting people like Trump and Trump’s ally and adviser Steve Bannon .
In an appearance on the Bannon podcast earlier this year, Navarro appeared to criticize former Vice President Mike Pence for saying that Trump had been wrong to claim that Pence had the authority to cancel the 2020 election. Navarro criticized Pence as “never a pure Trump boy” and “Marc Short’s prisoner,” a longtime Pence confidant and former vice president’s chief of staff, who has appeared before the House select committee.
This story was updated on Monday with additional information.