{"id":1168939,"date":"2021-12-29T10:49:13","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T15:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1168939"},"modified":"2021-12-29T10:49:15","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T15:49:15","slug":"peter-navarro-capitol-riot-disrupted-plan-to-stop-congress-from-certifying-biden-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/peter-navarro-capitol-riot-disrupted-plan-to-stop-congress-from-certifying-biden-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Navarro: Capitol Riot Disrupted Plan to Stop Congress from Certifying Biden Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpeter-navarro-capitol-riot-disrupted-plan-to-stop-congress-from-certifying-biden-win%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1168939&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/religion-antisemitism-capitol-riot-wednesday-jan-2021-file-photo-supporters-of-president-donald-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Peter Navarro, the former economic adviser to President Donald Trump, told the Daily Beast in an interview that the January 6 Capitol riot actually disrupted plans to have Congress overturn the 2020 vote, which had nothing to do with the violence.<\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;Daily Beast <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/trump-advisor-peter-navarro-lays-out-how-he-and-steve-bannon-planned-to-overturn-bidens-electoral-win?source=articles&amp;via=rss\">interviewed<\/a> Navarro about his new book,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Trump-Time-Journal-Americas-Plague\/dp\/1737478501\/?tag=breitbart035-20\"><em>In Trump Time: My Journal of America\u2019s Plague Year<\/em><\/a>, which he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/20\/exclusive-new-york-times-keeping-peter-navarros-book-in-trump-time-off-the-best-seller-list\/\">told<\/a> Breitbart News was being suppressed by the&nbsp;<em>New York Times<\/em>\u2018 bestseller list. Navarro detailed a plan, called the \u201cGreen Bay Sweep,\u201d which he says was coordinated with former Trump adviser Stephen K. Bannon and based on legal advice from scholar John Eastman.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The plan allegedly involved using Congress to stall the certification, pressuring then-Vice President Mike Pence to send the vote back to six contested states, and forcing 24 hours of televised hearings on allegations of fraud.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Capitol riot was totally unexpected, Navarro said, saying that he had met protesters that morning and they were peaceful.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of the riot, Congress faced new pressure to certify the vote as a statement of defiance against political violence. Though arguably Pence had no other choice, Navarro said Pence\u2019s certification of the vote was a <em>Julius Caesar<\/em>-style betrayal.<\/p>\n<p>Pence does not appear to have been involved in the plan described by Navarro. He has since said it was his constitutional duty to certify the vote.&nbsp;(Pence, asked last month who had told him not to certify the results, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/02\/watch-mike-pence-says-james-madison-told-him-not-to-overturn-election\/\">quipped<\/a>: \u201cJames Madison.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>Navarro told the Daily Beast&nbsp;that his account of events exonerates both Trump and Bannon: \u201cThey don\u2019t want any part of me. I exonerate Trump and Bannon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Navarro is one of several former Trump aides <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/12\/11\/navarro-refuses-subpoena-house-coronavirus-probe-524123\">defying<\/a> a subpoena from the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack; several are suing the committee in federal court, arguing that it violates the Constitution\u2019s separation of powers, the Bill of Rights, and the terms of its own enabling House <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/117th-congress\/house-resolution\/503\/text\">resolution<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of <\/em>Breitbart News Sunday<em> on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Neither-Free-nor-Fair-Presidential-ebook\/dp\/B08PNN54BB\">Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election<\/a>. His recent book, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.centerstreet.com\/titles\/joel-b-pollak\/red-november\/9781546099840\/\">RED NOVEMBER<\/a><em>, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joelpollak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@joelpollak<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Navarro, the former economic adviser to President Donald Trump, told the Daily Beast in an interview that the January 6 Capitol riot actually disrupted plans to have Congress overturn &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1168939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1168939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1168939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1168939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1168939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}