Ex-GOP Congressman Goes Off On Peter Navarro Going to Prison: ‘To Work For Trump… Is to Commit Crimes For Trump’
Former Republican Congressman Joe Walsh (R-IL) sounded off on Monday morning about the impact of former Trump advisor Peter Navarro reporting to prison for contempt of Congress.
“So I did want to ask you about this, the former White House adviser, Peter Navarro, he is set to head to prison today for contempt of Congress. And that conviction in that case. I mean, one of the things that we’ve seen time and again, people who work for Donald Trump, getting themselves in legal hot water, sometimes going to prison. Your thoughts on seeing Peter Navarro reporting to prison today? I mean, that of all the headlines, I mean, that’s that’s no small thing,” began CNN anchor Jim Acosta.
“That should be a huge headline,” Walsh replied, adding:
But there’s so much. To work for Trump is to lie for Trump and to commit crimes for Trump. But Jim, Trump will use this. And what Mark said is so true, we cannot discount this. Donald Trump wants there to be violence. He wanted there to be violence on January 6th. He will spend this entire campaign. He’ll use Navarro going to prison as an excuse to foment violence.
Acosta then brought CNN correspondent Kristen Holmes and added, “Yeah, and Kristen, I know you reported on this week of people in Trump world going to prison, former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort may be coming back to the campaign.”
“Yes. Not just going to prison, not just charged with several financial crimes,” Holmes began as Acosta interjected, “almost a revolving door.”
Holmes continued, “A reminder, that Donald Trump pardoned Paul Manafort at the end of his term. So it comes full circle here. Now, what I am told it’s not necessarily joining the campaign, but that he has been in discussions to help with the Republican National Convention, something that Paul Manafort did in previous lifetimes.”
“But it’s not being a campaign adviser necessarily, nothing has been set in stone. They’re talking about fundraising. They’re talking about a role for him. But all the stems from Donald Trump himself. Donald Trump wants Paul Manafort to be part of the fold. We know Manafort has been at Mar-A-Lago visiting Donald Trump. He’s kept a relationship with all these people,” Holmes continued, noting another relationship Trump has kept with a close adviser he had to pardon after several convictions.
“The other person, you know, he’s kept a really close relationship with that falls into the same category, Roger Stone. He was there on Super Tuesday at Mar-A-Lago, coming out with Donald Trump almost side by side with him, you know, with the close campaign advisers,” Holmes added.
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