DOJ Asks Judge to Order Ex-Trump Adviser Peter Navarro to Return Private White House Emails

The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday asked a judge to order former White House adviser Peter Navarro to return private email communications that he sent while working for the Trump administration, claiming that he has “refused” to do so in violation of a record-keeping law.

In a motion filed in the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., the DOJ noted that while working as a senior White House advisor from January 2017 until January 2021, Navarro was subject to the terms of the Presidential Records Act (PRA).

Under that act, Presidential records are the property of the federal government and once that president leaves office, “[t]he United States shall reserve and retain complete ownership, possession, and control of Presidential records; and such records shall be administered in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.”

The PRA describes Presidential records as “documentary materials, or any reasonably segregable portion thereof, created or received by the President, the President’s immediate staff, or a unit or individual of the Executive Office of the President whose function is to advise or assist the President, in the course of conducting activities which relate to or have an effect upon the carrying out of the constitutional, statutory, or other official or ceremonial duties of the President.”

E-mail and other electronic messages, including those sent and received on nonofficial electronic message accounts are included in the act, to which “certain conditions and exceptions” also apply.

U.S. President Donald Trump signs the executive order for the reinstatement of the Mexico City Policy in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Jan. 23, 2017. With Trump (L-R) are then White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and head of the White House Trade Council Peter Navarro. (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque/Files) Communications About COVID Response

The DOJ alleges that Navarro used “at least one non-official email account”


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