Exclusive — Peter Navarro Calls For Investigation of Corrupt FBI Agents: Walter Giardina ‘Not a Martyr

Peter Navarro is demanding a full investigation into the FBI’s conduct, calling out the agents who targeted both him and President Donald Trump. At the center of his concerns is former FBI agent Walter Giardina, whom Navarro insists is “not a martyr.” In an interview, Navarro laid out what he sees as a years-long pattern of government overreach that weaponized federal law enforcement against a sitting president and his allies.

“This guy is virtually everywhere,” Navarro said about the FBI agent recently fired by FBI Director Kash Patel.

Navarro walked listeners through what he described as an unprecedented timeline of abuse, pointing out how the FBI and Department of Justice “went after Donald John Trump, dating back from 2016 all the way to President Trump being elected in November of 2024.” He tied the origins to the now infamous Steele dossier, which was funded by Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

According to Navarro, the effort to discredit Trump involved a cast of familiar political figures — Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, James Comey, James Clapper, Adam Schiff, and others. He argued that Giardina’s fingerprints were on the operation from the very beginning.

“So the Giardina story starts in 2016 with the Christopher Steele dossier. That was the dossier. It was totally fake. It was presented as an intelligence report, paid for by Hillary Clinton, and the whole purpose of that was to create a Russia, Russia, Russia hoax,” Navarro said, explaining that Giardina was among those who “according to whistleblowers, corroborated the Steele dossier — said it was real, not fake.”

Navarro detailed how that false narrative gave cover for Crossfire Hurricane, the FBI’s operation to investigate Trump. That, in turn, evolved into the Mueller probe, an investigation that dragged on for years, fueled endless headlines, and left lasting scars on the nation’s politics.

“And once that was done, that set in motion the whole ball of wax. It set in motion Crossfire Hurricane operation by the FBI and DOJ to get Trump. That, in turn, morphed into the Mueller report,” he said, noting that many of those involved had their government-issued devices conveniently wiped clean.

Navarro accused Giardina of being implicated in that suspicious activity. “And so Giardina was implicated in terms of, according to whistleblowers, that his laptop was wiped … And if he did that on purpose, Matt, that’s a felony right there. That’s jail time alone. And then he goes on and uses this thing called the Emoluments Clause. It’s a clause in the Constitution that says presidents and government officials can’t take money from foreigners. And the allegation, which turned out to be totally false, it was the Egypt hoax,” he said, underscoring that Giardina was “involved in everything.”

This pattern, Navarro argued, shows how unelected bureaucrats, shielded by federal power, can pursue political agendas at taxpayer expense. In his telling, it was not oversight or accountability at work — it was the machinery of government turned against political opponents.

Navarro, who has a new book titled I Went to Prison So You Won’t Have To, said his personal experience underscores the danger. “The title is a tagline for my speech at the Republican National Convention. And what it means, basically, is that I’m the wakeup call here for America. If they can come for me, if they can come for Bannon, if they can come for Trump, they can come for all of us,” he warned, calling Giardina “the guy who came for me.”

“The left’s trying to make him a martyr. … This son of a bitch is not a martyr. He’s an insurrectionist, in my view, and he committed treason against his country by trying to in different operations — either interfere with the 2016 and 2020 elections, or overthrow Donald Trump,” Navarro said.

He acknowledged the personal tragedy that Giardina suffered, as the agent lost his wife not long before being fired. “It’s always tragic when somebody loses their spouse. And Giardina’s spouse died tragically a couple of months before he got fired, and I send him my sincere condolences,” Navarro said.

But Navarro stressed that sympathy does not erase the damage done. “HeHeHe didn’t give a shit about perp-walking my fiancée. He didn’t care when Jeff Clark’s home got raided and his family got terrorized. He didn’t care when Mar-a-Lago got raided and they went through Melania’s closets. This is a man who has tried to, in my judgment, overthrow the government of the United States, using the powers of the FBI in an abusive way,” Navarro declared. “And he’s no more a martyr than Saddam Hussein or Osama bin Laden’s a martyr.”

For Navarro and many others, the stakes are clear: unchecked power in the hands of unelected officials threatens liberty and undermines the rule of law. His call for an investigation is less about settling personal scores and more about exposing a system that too often operates outside accountability — one that, in his view, should concern every American who values constitutional limits on government.