After being released from prison, former Trump adviser Peter Navarro warns: “They are not done with me”

Former Trump adviser Peter Navarro was released from federal prison Wednesday morning after completing his sentence on charges of contempt of Congress. And in his first major public appearance he sent a clear message to his coreligionists: “They have not finished me off.”

Navarro was convicted in September on two counts of contempt of Congress for refusing to provide testimony and documents to the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, for which he served four months in a low-security facility in Miami.

““They are not done with me and they are not going to finish Trump,” he said at the Republican National Convention.which runs from Monday through Thursday to formalize Trump’s candidacy for the White House and that of his “number two,” Ohio Senator JD Vance.

Navarro was the second former Trump adviser to be found guilty of failing to cooperate with the House committee investigating the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol. The first, in July of last year, was far-right activist Steve Bannon, who was also sentenced to four months in prison.

He was released from prison this Wednesday in Miami and appeared directly in Milwaukee, where Trump made his first public appearance after being the victim of an assassination attempt. on Saturday at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, where he was injured in the ear.

“I went to jail so you don’t have to. If we don’t control our government, our government will control us,” he said in a speech that was greeted with applause and during part of which he was accompanied by his partner, with whom he shared a kiss and a hug that enthralled the audience.

In testimony during Navarro’s trial, the committee’s former staff director, David Buckley, said on Jan. 6 that the House panel had been seeking to question Navarro about efforts to delay Congress’ certification of the 2020 election, a plan Navarro dubbed the “Green Bay Sweep” in his book, “In the Time of Trump.”

Navarro unsuccessfully argued that former President Donald Trump had asserted executive privilege over his testimony. and document production.

During his sentence, Navarro worked in the prison library and lived in the “senior dormitory,” so according to local media, he had no problems with other inmates or staff and was “well respected.”

Navarro, who under Trump served as director of the White House Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy, was the first former Trump adviser to face prison time for actions related to the Jan. 6 attack. Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon, who was also convicted of contempt of Congress, began his four-month prison term earlier this month.

Congressional investigators wanted to gather his testimony regarding his actions following the 2020 election, in which the current US president, Democrat Joe Biden, emerged victorious.

Navarro turned himself in to authorities on March 19 after failing to avoid jail time while appealing his conviction. U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Roberts dismissed his defense’s request.

The former adviser refused to cooperate with the committee on the grounds that Trump invoked the doctrine of “executive privilege,” which means that certain information cannot be disclosed without his permission.

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