Leave it to former Trump advisor and current federal inmate #04370-510 Peter Navarro continues to lose as he sits in the prison yard at FCI Miami. According to the Washington Post, Navarro lost his appeal to the DC Court of Appeals for a contempt of court threat–different from the contempt of Congress convictions he’s currently serving time for–made by a federal judge following Navarro’s failure to turn over documents to the National Archives.
U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly had ordered Navarro to turn over documents to the Archive from his time as a presidential economic advisor during Donald Trump’s single term in office, when the economy underperformed while racking up $8 trillion in debt. Navarro, however, claimed that the documents are personal documents covered under the Presidential Records Act.
After the judges likely had to stop themselves from laughing at the argument–because the PRA (1) doesn’t give privilege to advisors and (2) doesn’t allow the President to claim as personal records the documents created by his staff to help him do his job–they affirmed that Judge Kollar-Kotelly correctly threatened Navarro with contempt for failing to comply with the court order to turn over the docs.