Peter Navarro, the former Trump White House trade advisor, is expected to speak at the Republican National Convention next week, just hours after his release from jail on July 17th.
Peter Navarro, the Trump aide who has been serving a prison sentence, is set to be released from prison next week and is going to address the RNC Convention. https://t.co/nyapNIVXcM pic.twitter.com/yDoR90dIqe
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) July 13, 2024
Navarro was found guilty of contempt of Congress charges last September for refusing to cooperate with a congressional investigation into the Jan. 6th, 2021, incident at the U.S. Capitol. He has since been in Miami prison.
Navarro's attorney declined to comment on his participation in the convention.
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The event is expected to draw millions of viewers across days of programming, so Navarro's attendance could raise eyebrows.
Before heading to prison in March, Navarro had called his conviction the "partisan weaponization of the judicial system."
This is Peter Navarro’s @RealPNavarro last interview before he reports to prison.
He stood up to the corrupt Jan 6th committee - and was persecuted for it. Peter is a patriot while the left’s lawfare is as destructive as it’s ever been. pic.twitter.com/qr2E0y4MAf — Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) March 19, 2024
Navarro is a patriot. He will be vindicated when this is all over. Republicans, where are you? Members of Congress should be speaking out in unison. If you think this starts & ends with Navarro you are wrong. https://t.co/zLKjQaVgRP
— Sean Parnell (@SeanParnellUSA) March 19, 2024
Navarro had asked to stay free while he appealed his conviction to give the courts time to consider his challenge.
However, Washington’s federal appeals court denied his bid to avoid his sentence, finding that his appeal was unlikely to reverse his conviction.
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Trump, who has previously claimed Navarro to be a "great patriot" and "good man," has a history of standing by his allies.
Navarro was the second Trump aide convicted of contempt of Congress charges; former White House adviser Steve Bannon had also received a four-month sentence that he is serving now.
🚨LISTEN: Steve Bannon gives a powerful speech outside of the Connecticut prison he will be held in followed by a beautiful moment of prayer:
"I am proud to go to prison. If this is what it takes to stand up to tyranny. If this is what it takes to stand up to the Garland… pic.twitter.com/aRZqvZn7lp — Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) July 1, 2024
This is the Steve Bannon that will emerge from prison on November 1.
Get ready democrats. You messed with the wrong dude. 100 Million Votes For Trump. Lawfare is the greatest political miscalculation in history.pic.twitter.com/T6zUHCxtqu — Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) June 6, 2024
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Steve is wrong in his terminology and it is a big deal. He is conflating Republicans with conservatives and that is wrong and untrue. I am not a Republican I am a conservative and do not let that distinction be lost on you. Republicans do not get to define what is conservative and Steven should not allow them to.