Peter Navarro slams federal prosecutors, who accused him of mendacity about arrest, for 'false' claims

Former Trump White Home adviser Peter Navarro swiped again at federal prosecutors, alleging their accounts of his arrest final week have been "false and deceptive."

In a court docket movement Friday requesting paperwork, Navarro stood by his claims that he was disadvantaged of ample authorized counsel and rebuffed assertions from federal prosecutors Thursday that he was supplied counsel.

FEDERAL PROSECUTORS ACCUSE PETER NAVARRO OF LYING ABOUT ARREST

"It's the prosecution’s declare that's each false and deceptive," the submitting says. "As quickly because the defendant requested to name for authorized recommendation, the brokers ought to have learn from a written card the defendant his Miranda rights and finished all the things inside their energy to permit him a telephone name to hunt authorized recommendation as he requested nicely previous to his court docket look."

"They didn't accomplish that and thereby disadvantaged the defendant of acceptable authorized counsel," continues the movement, which was filed in federal court docket in Washington, D.C.

Prosecutors insisted in a Thursday submitting that Navarro's account of occasions contained quite a few misrepresentations.

Navarro's rebuttal got here as he demanded related paperwork pertaining to his arrest, together with video and audio recordings of the arrest, full transcriptions of related conversations, notes pertinent to a report by particular brokers, and signed affidavits from particular brokers concerned in his arrest.

Minutes previous to his look earlier than a Justice of the Peace final week, he was supplied the prospect to fulfill with a public defender and was involved that "if he refused to comply with a public defender, he may not be launched in a well timed method," per the movement.

"Whereas the general public defender was a high quality individual, she had little command of the information within the case as can be anticipated. This put the defendant at a far better drawback in the course of the listening to than if he had been capable of converse to authorized counsel, and it's an open query as as to whether that was the prosecution’s intent," the movement continued.

Navarro is dealing with contempt of Congress expenses for failing to adjust to a subpoena from the Home choose committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. He was arrested final week at Ronald Reagan Washington Nationwide Airport and charged within the case. In his movement Friday, he additionally reiterated claims that his request for water was denied and that "there was no meals accessible" — assertions prosecutors expressly denied in a submitting Thursday objecting to Navarro's request for a 45-day extension to his arraignment.

The previous Trump adviser claimed that he had been positioned in leg irons throughout his arrest and chastised the discharge of the FBI affidavit of the arrest, which he argued gave "false and deceptive impressions" that have been "seized upon by a left-wing media." He additionally recalled that after his arrest, a former high-ranking FBI agent reached out to him and decried the situations of his arrest as one other instance of "the FBI as soon as once more [allowing] themselves for use as a political pawn by the DOJ."

"If the defendant had merely been allowed to voluntarily give up, he would have been capable of have entry to the authorized recommendation he sought on the time of his arrest and this problem can be moot," the movement contended. "As a substitute, he turned one more object of the sort of intimidation and humiliation the FBI has gotten into the apply of inflicting on Trump allies."