Trump penned a last-minute letter in hopes of derailing the Justice Department's prosecution of former White House adviser Peter Navarro.
is making a last-ditch effort to save one of his closest associates from being prosecuted for refusing to comply with a subpoena issued by the House committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riot.
"President Trump considers the conversations and correspondence you had with him, like those he had with his other senior aides, to be protected against disclosure by executive privilege," Corcoran wrote, adding that Navarro had"an obligation to assert executive privilege on [Trump's] behalf." "[Navarro] has offered neither a sworn affidavit nor testimony from him or the former President. His contention rests only on his counsel's representations, which are not evidence," Mehta wrote on January 19."Without actual proof, the court cannot find that there was a formal invocation of privilege by the former President."
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