Rep. Bennie Thompson, (D) Chair, House Select Committee on January 6 Attack: “In the lead up to January 6th, Mr Scavino and Mr Navarro were both government employees. They worked in the White House. They drew salaries paid by the taxpayers. They had conversations with the ex-president. So now they’re saying they won’t answer any of our questions because of executive privilege. There are a couple of big problems with that argument. First, generally speaking, executive privilege doesn’t belong to just any White House official. It belongs to the president. Here, President Biden has been clear that executive privilege does not prevent cooperation with the select committee by either Mr Scavino or Mr. Navarro. And while the ex-president’s reportedly has raised privilege concerns when it comes to Mr. Scavino and Mr. Navarro’s case, nobody has even tried to invoke privilege, except Mr. Navarro himself. That’s just not the way it works.”
Rep. Liz Cheney, (R) Vice Chair, House Select Committee on January 6 Attack: “The committee has many questions for Mr. Scavino about his political social media work for President Trump, including his interactions with an online forum called The Donald, and with QAnon, a bizarre and dangerous cult. President Trump, working with Mr. Scavino, successfully spread distrust for our courts, which had repeatedly found no basis to overturn the election. And Trump’s stolen election campaign succeeded in provoking the violence on January 6th. On this point, there is no doubt.”
“Mr. Navarro is also a key witness. He’s written a book boasting about his role in planning and coordinating the activity of January 6th. And yet he does not have the courage to testify here. We have many questions for Mr. Navarro, including about his communications with Roger Stone and Steve Bannon regarding the planning for January 6th. As Judge Carter concluded today, quote based on the evidence, the court finds it more likely than not that President Trump corruptly attempted to obstruct the joint session of Congress on January 6th, 2021.”
