Trump adviser Navarro: Rioters on Jan. 6 hurt plan to challenge election result
By Dominick Mastrangelo - 01/05/22 09:30 AM EST A top advisor to former President Trump is expressing frustration that a plan hatched by lawyers and political strategists in Trump's orbit to challenge the result of the 2020 presidential election was hindered when violence broke out at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
Peter Navarro, Trump's former top aide on trade, said Tuesday during an interview on MSNBC that Trump's allies believed there was legal basis for the plan, which would have involved Republican members of Congress rejecting the election's result and kicking the votes back to state legislatures, something he referred to as the "Green Bay sweep."
"The plan was simply this: We had over 100 congressmen and senators on Capitol Hill ready to implement the sweep. The sweep was simply that. We were gonna challenge the results of the election in the six battleground states," Navarro said.
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