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Political Prisoner Peter Navarro On Crushing Democrat Lawfare Before It Comes For You Too

Federalist Radio Hour

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News Commentary, News, Politics

4.53.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Peter Navarro, White House senior counselor for trade and manufacturing, joins Federalist Senior Elections Correspondent Matt Kittle to share his experience as the first senior White House official ever to be put in prison for contempt of Congress. Navarro also explains the importance of crushing Democrat lawfare now so it can't be further weaponized if the blue party regains power. 

You can find Navarro's book I Went to Prison So You Won't Have To: A Love and Lawfare Story in Trump Land here. Read more about Navarro's fight against lawfare here

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Transcript

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0:00.0

And we are back. With another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.

0:21.8

I'm Matt Kittle's senior elections correspondent at The Federalist and your experience

0:26.5

Sherpa on today's quest for knowledge.

0:29.4

As always, you can email the show at Radio at the Federalist.com.

0:34.1

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0:37.2

Make sure to subscribe wherever you download your podcast and, of course, to the premium version of our website as well.

0:44.9

Our guest today is Peter Navarro, Senior Trump White House Advisor, his new book, I went to prison so you won't have to. A love and lawfare story in Trump land is an

0:58.9

absolute insider's look at what real political weaponization looks like. Peter, thank you so much

1:04.9

for joining us in this edition of the Federalist Radio Hour. I so much appreciate it. And I've long

1:10.7

admired what the Federalist does in these areas of constitutional

1:14.4

law.

1:15.9

And that's what I went to prison so you won't have to is much about, not all about,

1:22.1

certainly, because there's several stories going on.

1:25.3

But the U.S. versus Peter Navarro is destined to be a landmark constitutional

1:33.1

case on the separation of powers. I'm still fighting my appeal, even though I've done my time

1:41.9

in prison, as they say. I've got no personal incentive to fight that appeal, but I feel very strongly that if we don't, what's called, settle good law on the issue of the subpoena power versus the executive branch, it's going to be really difficult for White

2:05.7

houses to function without undue interference.

2:10.0

So there's a lot of good law to unpack there, sir.

2:14.0

No doubt about it.

2:14.9

I think it's an extremely important case.

2:17.1

And I know you probably just want to

2:19.3

walk away from this stuff and say, you know, like you said, you did your time. You were under

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