A former Trump adviser Peter Navarro speaks at GOP convention following being released from jail
Former Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro was a keynote speaker during the Republican National Convention on Wednesday just minutes after being released from a Miami federal prison after the successful completion of a prison sentence of four months for ignoring a subpoena served from the Committee of Congress on the 6th of January.
By Tierney Sneed, Katelyn Polantz, Denise Royal
Jul 18, 2024 02:44 AM
CNN —
Peter Navarro, the former Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro spoke at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday just hours after his release from Miami federal prison following the complete sentence of 4 months for failing to comply with the summons that was issued by 6 January Congress Committee.
“I received a simple message to you. If they are able to come after me, they could be able to come after Donald Trump. Be careful. They’ll be after the person you are,” he told convention attendees at Milwaukee in Wisconsin during which his ex-colleague was officially declared his 2024 GOP presidential candidate.
Navarro was one of two Trump’s circle members who were found guilty of failing to comply with subpoenas served by the extinct House select committee which examined the 6 January 2021 incident at the US Capitol. Trump advisor Steve Bannon started serving his prison sentence of four months in January in the federal prison, located within Connecticut.
Navarro had been in his 70s and and been employed as a librarian when that he was in a prison Prison counsellor Sam Mangel told CNN.
“Everybody has to work,” Mangel said. “It offered him the chance to write. “
Mangel said that Navarro was well-liked and respected by the other inmates of in the facility.
“When I went to visit him, guys were coming up to him, high-fiving him,” Mangel said.
Navarro finished his remarks on Wednesday night during the Republican convention by inviting his wife to join him present on stage with him “This is my lovely daughter. She was there with me. “
“Now here’s the sweetest thing that’s going to come off my lips: Vote Trump-Vance ’24 for Trump 47,” Trump declared.
In contradiction to the subpoena
When lawmakers requested Navarro to be a part of investigations into the Trump’s electoral subversion plan They pointed to reports that he was member of a plot to stop Congress in its decision to accept the outcome of the presidential election in 2020 in addition to his own account in his memoirs of the plots connected to the presidential election.
Within a couple of hours of deliberations a federal jury found Navarro innocent in July of 2013 for contempt of the court on two counts of his inability documents and he did not attend an appearance before the panel they were requesting.
Before the trial, Navarro attempted to prove to the jury that he was operating pursuant to the direction of Trump who had claimed executive privilege when he refused to comply with an order to produce documents. However, the judge refused to allow him to make this argument after determining that the former White House aide had not provided sufficient evidence the fact that Trump was in fact claiming this privilege.
While Navarro could not win an appeal in the emergency court to stay his prison sentence He is now submitting an appeal seeking to reverse his conviction based on merits.
Federal correctional facility in which Navarro is resident since March is one of the most sought-after prisoners camps across the United States with less than 200 inmates inside its old infrastructure and an overwhelming majority Puerto Rican population.
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The CNN’s Aditi Sangal, and Andrew Menezes contributed to this report.
