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Jan. 6 committee votes to hold Scavino, Navarro in contempt

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Director of the National Trade Council Peter Navarro looks on as President Donald Trump meets with supply chain distributors in reference to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, in the Cabinet Room in the West Wing at the White House on Sunday, March 2 (Photo by Pete Marovich-Pool/Getty Images)WASHINGTON - The House committee investigating the Jan.

6 attack on the U.S. Capitol voted unanimously Monday night to hold former Trump advisers Peter Navarro and Dan Scavino in contempt of Congress for their monthslong refusal to comply with subpoenas.The committee made their case that Navarro, former President Donald Trump's trade adviser, and Scavino, a White House communications aide under Trump, have been uncooperative in the congressional probe into the deadly 2021 insurrection  and as a result, are in contempt."They're not fooling anybody.

They are obligated to comply with our investigation. They have refused to do so. And that's a crime," Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson, the committee's Democratic chairman, said in his opening remarks.

The recommendation of criminal charges now goes to the full House, where it is likely to be approved by the Democratic-majority chamber.

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