Another Trump Aide Ordered To Turn Over HUNDREDS Of Documents

Former Trump trade advisor Peter Navarro has been ordered by a judge to turn over hundreds of documents that he held in his private email instead of on official government computers and accounts. Navarro has been fighting for years to turn over the documents, which is highly suspicious considering that these were supposed to be just regular job documents, raising the possibility that Navarro could be trying to hide damaging information. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what happened.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

So last week, uh, judge Colleen, caller Elli ruled that Peter Navarro, the former trade advisor during the Trump administration, had to turn over hundreds and hundreds of documents that he had been storing on his private proton email account instead of on his official government account. Because these were official government records and subject to the Presidential Records Act. But here we are in the year 2023 and Mr. Navarro has not turned over all of those records, kinda like a couple other people we've seen in recent months. Like, oh yeah, by the way, I have all of these records that legally I'm supposed to turn over to the National Archives and I just didn't do it. Now, the reason this story to me is so interesting is one, because we don't know what's in these documents. We know their government documents. We know that the government has known that Navarro has had them for years now, and the government's been trying to get them back for years.

But Navarro didn't wanna give them back until the government agreed to give him immunity. Now, that's a little weird, don't you think? Because they had been working with Peter Navarro, as I said, for years, like, can we please have our documents back? You stored em improperly, you didn't save 'em. You gotta give them to us. They belong to us. The taxpayers pay for these things. You gotta turn 'em over. And he's like, yeah, I'll turn 'em over, but you gotta give me immunity. And it was at that point when he requested immunity that the Department of Justice said, all right, look, we now are just gonna file a lawsuit. We're not gonna give you immunity. We're gonna file a lawsuit, we're gonna get our documents back. And that is exactly what happened with this ruling. But it begs the question, why did Peter Navarro request immunity?

You didn't need immunity from prosecution when they were simply requesting the documents. They weren't threatening to to arrest you. They weren't threatening to charge you. Give us the documents, we'll be on our way. You're good to go. So why would he need immunity? I think we all know why he would be requesting immunity, even though we don't know what is in those documents. It's pretty obvious through the immunity request that there's probably something in there that Navarro doesn't want anybody else to see because it could implicate him in potential criminal activity. You don't ask for immunity unless you think you're gonna be prosecuted. And he knew he wasn't gonna be prosecuted for having the documents. I mean, even though they sued to get the documents back, they could have just issued criminal charges against him and they didn't. So he knew charges weren't coming through the possession of the documents. So there must be something

In those documents that points to criminal activity. That's gotta be why he wanted immunity. And now that he has been forced to turn those documents over, I imagine we're gonna find that out pretty soon. We'll know why he wanted immunity. Maybe within the coming months, maybe once they file criminal charges, when they find out why he wanted that immunity so bad.