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Jon Skolnik

SHOCKING: Trumpworld gets knives out for pence | Mind Blowing Facts

US President Donald Trump signs an executive order for a federal hiring freeze alongside White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, National Trade Council Advisor Peter Navarro, US Vice President Mike Pence and Senior Advisor Jared Kushner(R) in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, January 23, 2017. Trump signed the decree Monday, effectively ending US participation in a sweeping trans-Pacific free trade agreement negotiated under former president Barack Obama. SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images

Peter Navarro, a former Donald Trump advisor who may be held in contempt of Congress, called former vice president Mike Pence a "traitor to the American Caesar of Trump" on Wednesday, saying that Pence's refusal to subvert the election was Trump's "Et tu, Brute?" moment. 

"It started flawlessly with [Senator] Ted Cruz challenging the results in Arizona," Navarro said in a Newsmax interview. "It was a tragedy that Mike Pence decided to be a traitor to the American Caesar of Trump. I liken it in [my book] to a Shakespearean moment, the 'Et tu, Brute?' moment."

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