{"id":49164,"date":"2022-06-07T13:51:42","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T20:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=49164"},"modified":"2022-06-07T13:51:42","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T20:51:42","slug":"justice-sends-mixed-messages-on-subpoenaing-trumps-inner-circle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=49164","title":{"rendered":"Justice sends mixed messages on subpoenaing Trump\u2019s inner circle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Justice Department\u2019s decision not to charge former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows or deputy communications director\u00a0Dan Scavino\u00a0with contempt of Congress is sending mixed messages about the extent those in the president\u2019s inner circle can flout lawmaker subpoenas.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Justice sent a letter to the House saying it would not pursue contempt charges against the two men even as it filed charges Friday against\u00a0Peter Navarro,\u00a0a former White House economic adviser, for defying a subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a decision that has left many wishing the DOJ would be more transparent in its rationale for charging some in Trump\u2019s inner circle, but not others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Justice Department\u2019s decision not to&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49165,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49164\/revisions\/49165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}