Convicted Trump official gets surprising response to international travel request

Ex-president Donald Trump's former trade advisor Peter Navarro, who was recently convicted of contempt of Congress, recently asked the court for permission to leave the country. The DOJ has a surprising response.

Navarro, who last month said that there are "murderers" at CNN and that the news network is guilty of "negligent homicide at a minimum," was found guilty on contempt allegations after he refused to cooperate with a panel investigating Jan. 6.

When he asked the court to leave the country before sentencing for medical purposes, he did so in a vague filing that didn't specify the medical treatment he would be seeking.

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That prompted some experts to suggest there would be a blanket rejection.

"Yeah, that's gonna be a 'no,'" MSNBC anchor and legal contributor Katie Phang wrote last week.

But the Justice Department had other ideas.

"Justice Dept says it does not object to former Trump advisor Peter Navarro’s request to travel internationally for medical treatment … ahead of his January sentencing in Contempt of Congress case," Scott MacFarlane of CBS reported Tuesday.

You can view the government's filing here.