Former Trump trade official Peter Navarro delivered a lengthy rant to reporters on his way to prison on Tuesday in which he repeatedly dare them to "fact check" me.
Unfortunately for Navarro, one of the reporters watching his soliloquy was Politico's Kyle Cheney, who regularly reads through reams of court documents and who was more than happy to oblige Navarro's request.
While watching Navarro's tirade against the Democratic Party and the assorted judges who have ruled against him, Cheney took issue with the former Trump official's claims that he was under no obligation to testify because Trump had invoked executive privilege.
"Navarro misrepresenting the evidence he presented that Trump invoked executive privilege," Cheney wrote on Twitter. "He claims he presented a 'mountain' of direct evidence. He actually presented virtually no direct evidence."
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Cheney elaborated on this in a follow-up post.
"Not only did Navarro fail to show any evidence that Trump invoked executive privilege over his testimony to the Jan. 6 committee — nor did Trump supply an affidavit or letter claiming to have done so — the judge ruled that it wouldn't have justified his blanket defiance," he added.
And this wasn't the only false claim that Navarro made, Cheney found.
"Navarro says to fact-check him that every judge, from start to finish, who ruled against him was a Democrat," writes Cheney. "He leaves out that Chief Justice Roberts signed off on it yesterday."
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