‘To Fact-Check There—’ Fox Anchor Dumps Out Of Ex-Trump Adviser’s Prison Presser With Instant Correction

Fox News anchor Sandra Smith cut in and instantly fact-checked ex-Trump adviser Peter Navarro’s claims to reporters as he surrendered to begin his federal prison sentence.

Navarro was sentenced to 4 months in federal prison after being found guilty of Contempt of Congress for violating a Jan. 6 Committee subpoena. On Tuesday, before he reported to Federal Correctional Institution Miami to begin his sentence, Navarro gave a press conference.

On Tuesday’s edition of Fox News Channel’s The Faulkner Focus, guest host Smith cut in on Navarro’s presser and immediately challenged him for repeatedly calling his offence an “alleged crime”:

PETER NAVARRO: So let’s let’s talk about some facts here. I am the first senior White House adviser in the history of our republic that has ever been charged with this alleged crime.

And I say alleged because for hundreds of years, this is not been a crime. And for 50 years, the Department of Justice has maintained the principle of absolute testimony immunity. And it was only with my case that somehow, that has changed.

And here’s here’s where the homework is, because the big constitutional separation of powers are these. Can Congress compel a senior White House adviser, what they call the alter ego of a president to testify before Congress? And and executive privilege goes back to George Washington and his remarks to the Congress regarding the Jay Treaty. And he said very simply and clearly, succinctly, elegantly that to write to the Congress, he said, “I cannot command you as members of Congress to come to me. You cannot command me to come to you.” And the reason is–

SANDRA SMITH: All right. And he will be reporting to that prison, 2 p.m. Eastern time there in Miami to serve his four-month prison sentence.

He began by saying, “not about me.” He said, “this is about a crippling blow to the justice system.”.

To fact-check there. It is no longer an alleged crime that he’ll be serving this four-month sentence for. He has obviously been convicted, and there was no evidence that did, that would have excluded him, per executive privilege, from testifying.

So John Roberts just on Monday refused to delay his prison time. He continues to appeal his conviction, Peter Navarro, for refusing to testify before Congress for his involvement in efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

74 years old, four months. Peter Navarro on his way to prison, speaking on his way there.

Watch above via Fox News Channel’s The Faulkner Focus.