Justice Department drops lawsuit against Trump adviser Peter Navarro

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Source: CNN Politics/AP

Published 7:23 AM EDT, Wed June 4, 2025


(AP) — The Justice Department is dropping a lawsuit that it filed against White House trade adviser Peter Navarro, a case in which he was accused of using an unofficial email account for government work and wrongfully retaining presidential records during the first Trump administration, according to a Tuesday court filing.

The joint filing by the Justice Department and an attorney for Navarro doesn’t explain why they are abandoning a case that was filed in 2022, during President Joe Biden’s term in office. The one-page filing says each side will bear their own fees and costs.

The lawsuit accused Navarro of using at least one “non-official” email account — a ProtonMail account — to send and receive emails. The legal action comes just weeks after Navarro was indicted on criminal charges after refusing to cooperate with a congressional investigation into the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. Navarro served a four-month prison sentence after being found guilty of misdemeanor charges.

The civil cases alleges that by using the unofficial email account, Navarro failed to turn over presidential records to the National Archives and Records Administration. The government notified the court of the lawsuit’s dismissal a day before US Magistrate G. Michael Harvey was scheduled to preside over a status conference for the case. A Justice Department spokesperson declined to comment. A lawyer for Navarro didn’t immediately respond to an email seeking comment.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/04/politics/navarro-trade-justice-department

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1. When will the DOJ just declare that any laws broken by a Republican cannot be prosecuted?

[riversedge]

2. I think the have by letting cases such as this drop. IMHO

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3. Of course it did.

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4. Our totally unbiases Dept. of Justice. chuckle, chuckle

Thank you Merrick the Meek.

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5. Garland is not there, this is Pam Bondi's DOJ

Bill Barr was in there before Garland and Jeff Sessions was there before Barr and Loretta Lynch was before Sessions and Eric Holder before Lynch and Michael Murkasey before Holder and Alberto Gonzales before Murkasey and John Ashcroft before Gonzales and Janet Reno (for both Clinton terms), Bill Barr (yes he was there back then), and Dick Thornburgh and Ed Meese before Thornburgh and...

See how that works?

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6. Merrick the Meek was there for four Years.

This corruption didn't just bloom in the last 5 months.

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8. The "corruption" has been there at LEAST

since at least Nixon.

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Richard Nixon and his Attorney General and campaign manager, John Mitchell: #NARA
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Remember John Mitchell?

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7. So what your saying is the Dept. of Justice will never ever not be CORRUPT.

Yup, I know how it works.

[BumRushDaShow]

9. Yes exactly.

Blaming only Democrats (like DU does all the time - having spent 8 years blaming Eric Holder for not frog-marching Shrub and Cheney and Ashcroft and Gonzales and Rice and Rumsfeld and Powell) and ignoring Republicans, is a true spectator sport here.

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10. They couldn't charge and indict, let alone prosecute

Navarro for this when *everybody* in the dump's administration is doing the exact same thing -- even with classified information! I mean, come on... how dumb can you be? There's only one question to be asked... is the offender a Democrat? If so, prosecute and throw his ass in jail. Is the offender a Republican? Oh, well... boys will be boys! ... it's a very simple decision tree!

[Karasu]

11. Of course. With Hillary Clinton, it was the fucking apocalypse. But "Ron Vara" actually does it and...crickets.

[Grins]

12. Well, now I'm shocked...

Mmmmm, maybe not. At all.