How a former Trump official's conviction could echo in ex-president's cases

The swift conviction of Donald Trump’s former trade adviser Peter Navarro for contempt of Congress sent two warnings to the multiple co-defendants in the ex-president’s approaching criminal trials.

The first is that nobody, not even former White House big shots claiming to be empowered by presidential authority, is above the law. The second is that loyalty to Trump can be hazardous and often gets those who show it cross-wise with the law. Navarro was convicted on Thursday for not complying with a subpoena from the House select committee that investigated the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol.

And CNN previously reported that his testimony before a grand jury in July was the source of new allegations against Trump and two co-defendants, including over alleged efforts to delete incriminating security footage at the club. “I think it’s big news, the fact that the defendants are starting to flip on one another,” former federal prosecutor Karen Friedman Agnifilo said on “CNN News Central” on Wednesday.

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