'Entitled drama queen' Peter Navarro lambasted on social media after whining about his treatment in police custody
Ever since the Richard Nixon era, Republicans have declared themselves to be the party of law and order — often echoing the theme from the 1970s television crime drama “Barretta”: Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time. But when MAGA Republican Peter Navarro, who served as a trade adviser to former President Donald Trump, appeared on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show on Monday night, June 6, that law-and-order message was nowhere to be found.
Navarro complained about the way he was treated while in police custody. And his comments are bringing him plenty of mockery and ridicule on Twitter.
\u201cNavarro complains that he was strip searched and denied food and water.\u201d— Acyn (@Acyn) 1654561579
Navarro, who is facing two counts of criminal contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s select committee on the January 6, 2021 insurrection, appeared in court on Friday, June 3. Outside the courthouse, he told reporters that the U.S. Department of Justice is showing an “utter disregard of the Constitution and the law.” And he had more complaints about his arrest during his “Tucker Carlson Tonight” appearance on June 6.
Navarro, who complained about being strip searched while in police custody, told Carlson, “People do not want to sit in solitary confinement in leg irons ― denied food, denied water, denied an attorney. This is what we live in.”
It didn’t take long for Navarro’s critics to slam his comments on social media and point out how entitled he sounded. Liberal firebrand and talk radio pundit Randi Rhodes tweeted:
\u201cWhy are the elite so appalled and shocked when they are arrested and treated like...everyone else?\u201d— Randi Rhodes (@Randi Rhodes) 1654564466
Luke Zaleski, legal affairs editor for Condé Nast, observed that far-right media pundits who view Navarro and other Trump allies as victims of the criminal justice system were indifferent about the killing of George Floyd in 2020:
\u201cWhen rightwing media relentlessly pretend traitors like Navarro are victims of prosecution remind them of their position on the treatment of George Floyd and ask them if everyone in America is afforded the same sympathy and benefit of the doubt they reserve for fascist trumpers\u201d— Luke Zaleski (@Luke Zaleski) 1654564677
\u201c@Acyn Get ready: The right wing propaganda machine will use every case against trumpist insurrectionists to launder/\u201cnormalize\u201d their domestic terrorism. In that sense trials become platforms for promoting more violence and indoctrinating more extremists. Trumpism is an insidious virus\u201d— Acyn (@Acyn) 1654561579
Here are some more Twitter users who lambasted Navarro following his “Tucker Carlson Tonight” appearance:
\u201cohhhh if only, Drama Queen\u201d— Dennis Herring (@Dennis Herring) 1654561939
\u201cDenied an attorney, food, water? For how long? \n\nYou have no right to a snack if you're in custody for an hour.\u201d— Michael J. Stern (@Michael J. Stern) 1654567596
\u201cIf he followed the law to begin with he would not have been arrested. \nOf course he was strip searched. Everyone is. \nFood and water is on schedule. Not on demand. No lawyer is total bullshit. \nThis guy is a traitor and a crook, crying to an idiot. \nAmerica's sh*t show on TV.\u201d— \ud83e\udd77\ud835\udd42\ud835\udd56\ud835\udd5f\ud835\udd65.\ud835\udd39 \ud83e\udd77 \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\uddf4 \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6 (@\ud83e\udd77\ud835\udd42\ud835\udd56\ud835\udd5f\ud835\udd65.\ud835\udd39 \ud83e\udd77 \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\uddf4 \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6) 1654561870
\u201c@Acyn Navarro is still incredulous that he, an entitled old, rich white dude, was subjected to the laws that govern the rest of us. Reality, what a concept.\u201d— Acyn (@Acyn) 1654561579
\u201c@RandiRhodes Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you..........\nThe Expectation of White Privilege!\u201d— Randi Rhodes (@Randi Rhodes) 1654564466
\u201c@RandiRhodes How is peter going to deal with federal prison? You break the law you get arrested.\u201d— Randi Rhodes (@Randi Rhodes) 1654564466
\u201c@Acyn I feel like if anyone has a right to complain, it\u2019s the poor soul who was forced to do a *strip search* on *Peter Navarro*.\u201d— Acyn (@Acyn) 1654561579
\u201c@Acyn Report his two-hours of no food or water to the Geneva Convention. \n\nThese MAGAs sure are delicate little flowers.\u201d— Acyn (@Acyn) 1654561579
\u201c@Acyn Denied food and water? Sounds like he was in a voter line in Georgia.\u201d— Acyn (@Acyn) 1654561579
\u201c@Acyn "Navarro complains that he was strip searched"\n\nThis is SOP. It prevents ppl from\n-sneaking in weapons that can be used to hurt/kill others or themselves\n-trafficking drugs & other contraband\n\nHow come these practices are only inhumane when "certain people" are subjected to them?\u201d— Acyn (@Acyn) 1654561579
\u201c@Acyn So...let me make sure I understand...an ARRESTED person was treated like... every other ARRESTED person? \n\nThe HORROR!!!\u201d— Acyn (@Acyn) 1654561579
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