Peter Navarro Breaks Down How Obama Could Land In Prison
Published 13 hours ago
on July 31, 2025
By Cullen McCue
Peter Navarro, a senior advisor to President Donald Trump on trade and the economy, laid out the possible scenario in which former President Barack Obama could face criminal charges due to his alleged role in crafting the Russian collusion hoax.
Navarro was previously convicted of contempt of Congress and sentenced to a federal prison term after he refused to comply with a subpoena from the Pelosi-led January 6 committee, which was formed under controversial circumstances. The Trump advisor had asserted executive privilege, as did former White House Chief Advisor Steve Bannon, though this was denied.
“Before my contempt of Congress conviction, the Department of Justice held that senior White House aides and even presidents were immune from congressional subpoenas. Then Biden’s DOJ flipped the script in my case,” Navarro posted on X Thursday. “Biden’s DOJ claims I lack testimonial immunity, asserting no such protection for former presidents or White House aides. That’s the flawed law I’m fighting on appeal.”
The “kicker,” Navarro noted, is that former Obama and Biden officials are also subject to prosecution due to the precedent set in cases against Bannon and himself. “They’re headed for the slammer,” he added.
While Obama was named as a conspirator by National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard when she declassified a memo outlining how the Russian collusion hoax was crafted under false pretenses, the question of presidential immunity has remained. Obama was indeed named in a Justice Department referral over the case, though he may indeed be immune due to last year’s Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity for official acts carried out while in office.
“It probably helps him a lot. Probably helps a lot. The immunity ruling, but it doesn’t help the people around him at all. But it probably helps him a lot,” Trump said of his initial predecessor this past Friday. “He’s done criminal acts, there’s no question about it. But he has immunity, and it probably helps him a lot… he owes me big, Obama owes me big.”
David Schoen, a veteran trial attorney who defended President Trump in his second impeachment trial, has also agreed that presidential immunity may not apply for different reasons to those outlined by Navarro.
“According to the Democratic Party and the House managers in the second impeachment trial,a former president once out of office is still subject to impeachment. In other words, they’ve argued Lincoln could be impeached, George Washington impeached. And certainly, as I predicted at the time, this would come back, they would rue the day because President Obama could be impeached if this evidence really says what it says,” the veteran attorney told Newsmax.
“And that it could also strip him of the immunity because under Article I, Section 3, Clause 7 of the Constitution, the Democrats argued it bars one from holding further office and the language itself says you’re still subject to criminal prosecution or indictment. So we’ll see how that plays out.”
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