Within the letter to Navarro, Clyburn rejected the previous Trump aide’s declare to govt privilege.
“It’s abundantly clear that you simply possess data aware of the subpoena that isn’t lined by any colorable claims of govt privilege,” he wrote to Navarro.
Trump final month instructed Navarro “to guard govt privilege and never let these unhinged Democrats discredit our nice accomplishments” with respect to the Home probe. In his Tuesday letter to the Home subcommittee, Navarro referred to as this a “direct, correct and express invocation” of the previous president’s govt privilege.
Navarro went on to explain the matter as at present “out of [his] arms,” saying the subcommittee ought to talk about it with Trump and his counsel.
The Home subcomittee was set as much as examine the Trump administration’s response to Covid-19, together with the previous president’s appointees interfering in studies from the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention.