'Buck wild': Legal analyst lays out what exactly led to Navarro’s prison sentence

During the latest episode of MSNBC's The ReidOut, Georgetown law professor and legal analyst Paul Butler broke down what exactly led to former Donald Trump administration official Peter Navarro's four-month prison sentence Thursday.

"Navarro was convicted in September on two counts for refusing to testify and to provide documents to the [House Jan. 6] committee. He wouldn't speak to the committee but he had no problem appearing on television," Reid noted. "He's a Trump guy, after all. When he joined Ari Melber on this very network to describe his plans to challenge the 2020 election results."

The MSNBC host then played a clip of the video, in which Navarro said, "The remedy was for Vice President Pence as the quarterback in the Green Bay Sweep to remand those votes back to the six battleground states."

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Melber asked, "Do you realize you're describing a coup?"

"No," replied Navarro.

Reid noted, "Before all of this happened, Paul, Peter Navarro was a regular economist. He was a business school professor, get-rich quick guru, former Peace Corps member, former Democrat. He then decides to throw his whole life away because he wouldn't testify before Congress." She turned to Butler, asking, "Please explain to the audience and anyone who might want to try this at home, why you would go to jail for four months for not testifying before Congress?"

Butler replied, "First, you have to understand how buck wild Peter Navarro's conduct was around January 6, which is why the House wanted him to testify. He devised this bizarre plan called the Green Bay Sweep. He and [former Trump White House strategist] Steve Bannon would try to pressure all these Republicans."

Reid interrupted emphasizing, "Again, he's an economist. He doesn't know anything about constitutional law."

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"Clearly, he doesn't know anything about constitutional law, because the other part was to pressure Vice President Pence to tell the Big Lie. So he's talking about all this stuff, to Rolling Stone magazine, on TV — he even writes a book about it. But he won't testify to the House. He calls the House January 6th committee terrorists. He says it's a kangaroo court, and that's what gets him his big fat conviction. He gets two counts of contempt of court, and today he was sentenced to four months in prison."

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