Peter Navarro Just Walloped Laura Loomer With the Accusation She Cannot Ignore

Peter Navarro served four months in a federal prison rather than give Biden's January 6 committee a single inch against Donald Trump.

Now he's published a scorching op-ed naming the one person in Washington who is actively protecting the people who put him there.

That person isn't a Democrat. It's Laura Loomer.

Laura Loomer Targeted the DOJ's No. 3 Official and Navarro Says She Got It Wrong

In a piece published Thursday in the Daily Caller, Navarro unloads on Loomer for her campaign to force out Stanley Woodward — the Associate Attorney General and No. 3 official at the Department of Justice.

Woodward, Navarro writes, is one of the very few lawyers in Washington who actually fought for Trump world when Biden's weaponized lawfare machine was trying to destroy the president and everyone around him. At great cost to his own career, Woodward represented Dan Scavino, Walt Nauta, Kash Patel, and Brian Jack — men in Trump's orbit who faced the full coercive power of the federal government. He represented Peter Navarro himself.

Loomer's charge against Woodward amounts to guilt by marriage, Navarro argues. His wife holds liberal views. So by the Loomer code, burn the husband at the stake.

"When did we in America start judging people by the ideology of their spouses?" Navarro asks in the op-ed. "Since when did marriage become a political blood test?"

Stanley Woodward Defended Kash Patel, Walt Nauta and Peter Navarro When No One Else Would

Navarro describes what Woodward actually was during those years. While elite Washington law firms fled anyone connected to Trump, Woodward took the cases nobody else would touch — a real lawyer doing real work in the trenches of Biden's lawfare campaign, knowing the reputational price and paying it anyway.

The results, Navarro points out, are starting to come in. The Supreme Court recently vacated Steve Bannon's conviction — a decision that could crack open Navarro's own legal battle.

Navarro anticipates Loomer's counter — that Woodward couldn't keep him out of prison. His answer: neither could have Clarence Darrow. The entire machine was aligned against him, he writes — from the January 6 Committee to the Biden FBI and DOJ to a hostile D.C. jury. No lawyer was walking into that courtroom and producing justice from institutions built to deny it.

That's not on Woodward. That's on the machine Loomer isn't targeting.

Biden Lawfare Prosecutors Are Still Inside the DOJ and Loomer Is Looking the Other Way

Here is where Navarro's op-ed lands its hardest punch.

The prosecutor Navarro believes helped construct the cases that put both Steve Bannon and himself behind bars for doing their constitutional duty? Still there. Still holding a senior position inside the U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington. That same prosecutor, Navarro writes, was also deep inside the January 6 machinery that Woodward was fighting from the outside.

Loomer has never gone after him.

Instead, she trained her fire on the lawyer who sacrificed his career for Trump's people — because his wife's politics are wrong.

"Whose water is she carrying now?" Navarro asks in the piece. "Laura Loomer is going after the wrong man while real enemies of true justice remain safely inside the perimeter."

The Loyalty Test Has a Flaw

Navarro doesn't dispute that the broader DOJ transition may be appropriate. Woodward resigned Saturday. Harmeet Dhillon — a proven America First loyalist — is expected to replace him. Navarro's quarrel isn't with the outcome.

It's with the method.

When a man who defended pre-FBI Kash Patel, Walt Nauta, and Peter Navarro himself gets pushed out because his wife's politics are wrong, Navarro argues, the loyalty test is no longer protecting Trump. It is devouring the people who actually bled for him.

Navarro walked into a federal prison in Miami in March 2024 — the first former White House official in American history imprisoned on a contempt of Congress conviction. He knows what genuine sacrifice for this president looks like. And in Thursday's op-ed, he says Laura Loomer has no idea who she just targeted.

Sources:

• Peter Navarro, "The Wrong Man To Loomer," Daily Caller, April 9, 2026.
• Legal Insurrection, "Harmeet Dhillon to Receive Big Promotion at the DOJ," April 5, 2026.
• CBS News, "White House is expected to shake up more leadership roles at Justice Department," April 4, 2026.
• NPR, "Ex-Trump adviser Peter Navarro sentenced to 4 months for contempt of Congress," January 25, 2024.
• CNN, "Peter Navarro begins serving prison sentence after historic contempt prosecution," March 19, 2024.