However, the committee argues that Mr Navarro’s work trying to overthrow the election was not part of his official duties and was not covered by executive privileges. “Federal law did not allow Mr Navarro to use his official office to try to influence the outcome of an election,” the commission said in a statement. “When Mr Navarro took part in these and other activities described below, he was acting outside the scope of his official duties.” As for Mr. Scavino, the commission said it had worked with Mr. Trump to spread false information on social media about electoral fraud and had recruited crowds in Washington on Jan. 6. The commission said it had “reason to believe” that Mr. Scavino, whose summons was served on Mar-a-Lago, owned by Mr. Trump in Palm Beach, Florida, was with Mr. Trump on Jan. 5 and on January 6, 2021, when plans were discussed to “challenge, interrupt, or obstruct the formal proceedings of Congress.” He was also with Mr. Trump, while people trapped inside the Capitol urgently called on the president to stop the violence. The commission also said it “has reason to believe that Mr. Scavino may have been warned in advance of the potential for violence on January 6” because he was known to be following pro-Trump websites where plans for violence were being discussed. On December 19, 2020, the same day, Mr. Trump wrote on Twitter: “Great protest in DC on January 6… Be there, it will be wild!”, Users of TheDonald.win, a site for Trump supporters, began to share “specific techniques, tactics and procedures for attacking the Capitol,” the commission said. “Subsequent weeks of communication on the site included information on how to use a flagpole as a weapon, how to smuggle firearms into DC, guillotine measurements and maps of tunnel systems under the Capitol building.”
