Donald Trump’s former White House adviser Peter Navarro was released from a Miami federal prison on Wednesday (17) after serving his four-month sentence for defying a Jan. 6 congressional committee subpoena.
Navarro is expected to travel quickly to Milwaukee so he can attend the Republican National Convention, where his former boss was formally nominated as the GOP’s 2024 presidential candidate.
He is one of two members of Trump’s inner circle who were convicted of failing to comply with subpoenas from the now-defunct House Select Committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. Trump adviser Steve Bannon began serving a four-month sentence earlier this month at a federal prison in Connecticut.
Navarro, who is in his 70s, worked as a law library clerk during his time in the prison camp, his prison consultant, Sam Mangel, told CNN .
“Everybody has to work,” Mangel said. “It gave him a chance to write.”
Mangel said Navarro was well-liked and respected by his fellow inmates while in prison.
“When I went to visit him, guys would come up to him and say hello,” Mangel said.
When lawmakers demanded Navarro’s participation in their investigation into Trump’s election subversion schemes, they pointed to reports that he was involved in efforts to delay Congress’ certification of the 2020 presidential results, as well as accounts in his own book describing plans related to the election.
After just a few hours of deliberations, a federal jury found Navarro guilty last year of two counts of contempt: failing to produce documents and failing to appear for an interview that the commission had required.
Before the trial, Navarro tried to argue to the jury that he was acting on instructions from Trump, who had invoked executive privilege, when he refused to comply with the subpoena. The judge, however, barred him from presenting that defense, finding that the former White House aide had not presented sufficient evidence that Trump had formally asserted the privilege.
Although Navarro was unsuccessful in an emergency appeal to postpone his prison sentence, he is now appealing his conviction on the merits.
The federal correctional center where Navarro has been held since March is one of the oldest prison camps in the country, housing fewer than 200 inmates in its aging infrastructure and a large Puerto Rican population.
Source: CNN Brasil
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