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Peter Navarro: “Jack Smith indicted and prosecuted me for criminal contempt…”

Featuring: Peter Navarro, Republican | Senior Counselor for Trade and Manufacturing, Trump Administration | National

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Peter Navarro, Former Director of the U.S. Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy

Published | Video Starts at 01:20

All right, what happened next? The next jackboot to drop was the executive branch. Another one of your favorite Democrats, Democrat Attorney General Merrick Garland. There's a winner. And then Jack Smith indicted and prosecuted me for criminal contempt of Congress. Now, here's what's weird about it. It's something that Democrat prosecutors refused to do against one of their own, including two guys with blood on their hands, Eric Holder and Alejandro Mayorkas, the great border czar. (01:20–01:40)

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