BY PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
Peter Navarro, 73 years old, was Assistant to the President for Trade and Manufacturing Policy during the Trump administration. I do not know him. Â
Last February the Democrats subpoenaed him to appear before the Democratsâ âSelect Committee on the January 6 Attack,â a show trial operation trying to invent an âinsurrectionâ by people who took selfies sitting in Nancy Pelosiâs chair.
As Trump had declared executive privilege, Navarro simply observed the presidentâs right and refused to appear.
There is nothing unusual about this. It has been happening forever.  Personally I do not know if executive privilege is a good idea, but it is a fact.
It is what happened to Navarro that is unprecedented.  In early June five armed FBI agents grabbed him as he was boarding a flight to Tennessee, handcuffed him, put him in leg irons and placed him in solitary confinement. Â