Miranda Devine: How the Biden admin weaponized the justice system against Trump aide Peter Navarro
Former First Lady Jill Biden’s factotum Anthony Bernal refused to testify before Congress last week for a scheduled interview about the Joe Biden autopen scandal.Now Bernal will be subpoenaed by the House Oversight Committee to compel his testimony about who was really running the White House during Biden’s term — or face potential criminal charges of contempt.That’s a real possibility for Bernal and other former White House officials implicated in the coverup of Biden’s cognitive decline, considering that the Biden administration broke all norms when they jailed Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro and former adviser Steve Bannon last year for failing to comply with congressional subpoenas to testify before Nancy Pelosi’s star chamber investigation of the Jan.6, 2021, Capitol riot.What goes around comes around.Navarro, 75, was the first White House official in history to be imprisoned for a contempt of Congress conviction.He served a four-month sentence in a federal prison in Miami last year.By contrast, the very Department of Justice that set a chilling precedent with its prosecutions of Navarro and Bannon (who also served four months in a federal prison in Connecticut last year) gave itself a pass when then-Attorney General Merrick Garland similarly was held in contempt for defying a congressional subpoena to hand over embarrassing audio recordings of Biden’s interview with special counsel Robert Hur.As a senior White House adviser on Jan.
6, 2021, Navarro’s conviction should have had a higher bar than Bernal’s or any other former adviser’s.But the Biden DOJ and one of their pet DC judges, Obama-appointed District Judge Amit Mehta, ignored Navarro’s legitimate concerns about executive privilege and punished him for his loyalty to his boss, President Trump.It was just one egregious aspect of the weaponized justice system ushered in by Democrats during the last administration, which targeted Trump and his allies as “domestic terrorists,�...