OPINION:
On Monday, I was ordered to report to prison in two weeks. I wrote the remarks you are about to read for a speech delivered at CPAC with this possibility of an imminent prison cell uppermost in my mind – if they can come for me, they can come for you, and they damn well are coming for Donald John Trump. So please listen up now, America, regardless of what political party you favor – this is as serious as a heart attack.
To paraphrase Clausewitz, lawfare is partisan politics by weaponized justice means.
Democrats Joe Biden, Merrick Garland, and Jack Smith; Alvin Bragg, Letitia James, and Fani Willis; and a sizable chunk of the radical wing of the Democrat party want to stop Republican Donald Trump from retaking the White House. They want this tall presidential timber and providential titan, who kept our nation in prosperity and out of war for four beautiful years, to die cruelly in prison.
If you don’t believe they may well succeed, look at my own situation as I stand before you on this stage as a former high-ranking Trump official now just weeks away from a prison cell.
The parallels between my own and Mr. Trump’s case are indeed striking.
I am the first senior White House official ever convicted of contempt of Congress. Mr. Trump is the first former president ever to be criminally indicted.
I was put in leg irons by armed FBI agents who far more easily could have asked for my voluntary surrender. Mr. Trump was the target of an equally unnecessary armed FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago.
I was indicted by the Biden-Garland Department of Justice despite a more than 50-year policy against compelled congressional testimony by senior White House officials like me. DOJ’s hypocritical prosecutors would falsely argue to my jury I had acted “above the law” when they knew full and damn well I was simply doing my duty in honoring the Constitution, fulfilling my oath of office, and obeying the law and policy DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel had long articulated and supported.
Mr. Trump likewise faces a dizzying array of charges – and more than 700 years in prison — based on equally novel and baseless applications of laws and statutes that have been tortured and twisted by partisan prosecutors.
Then there is this: Every single major actor in the prosecutions of both me and Mr. Trump are Democrats. Yet, the Democrats and their useful partisan idiots in the legacy media want you to believe our prosecutions are not political.
In my case, a Democrat House majority held me in contempt on an overwhelmingly partisan vote. A Democrat-controlled DOJ indicted and prosecuted me. A heavily skewed Democrat jury featuring members who had expressed anti-Trump sentiments in voir dire convicted me.
Mr. Trump similarly has been indicted solely by Democrats. The probability of the former president getting a jury broadly reflective of the American electorate is near zero in the bluest of blue cities of Washington, D.C., Manhattan, and Atlanta.
Then there is the utter repudiation in both our cases of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall’s admonition that every defendant has the “right to a full and fair defense.” By the time my case got to the jury, the judge had stripped me of every possible defense, making my conviction a foregone conclusion.
I see the same process unfolding as I follow the myriad Trump court cases. Across multiple jurisdictions, Democrat-appointed judges are systematically stripping away the full, fair, and rightful defenses of Mr. Trump.
As I ready myself for a prison cell, my question to you is this: What are you going to do to protect your own right to vote for Mr. Trump if you so choose?
Just what are you going to do the throw those lawfare rascals out who, just a few short miles away from us in the White House and on Capitol Hill, and at the FBI and Department of Justice, are doing so much damage to our economy, our border, our national security, and ultimately our political institutions, civility, and social fabric?
As we hurtle now towards a November 2024 election where the differences between the parties and candidates are so stark and the stakes are so high, we are in a ferocious and often vicious fight where losing is not an option. For if we lose, we will surely lose this country.
Therefore, YOU must get involved. In the canon of Steve Bannon, that means Action, Action, Action! And both Bannon’s War Room and CPAC – and I add here The Washington Times commentary page — can help show you the way.
Peter Navarro. Out. I’ll see you all on the other side.
• Peter Navarro served in the Trump White House as manufacturing czar and chief China hawk. You can help fund the appeal of his conviction by becoming a paid subscriber to http://peternavarro.substack.com or donating to his legal defense fund at http://givesendgo.com/navarro.
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