Peter Navarro, a top adviser to then-President Donald Trump, has been released from a Miami prison and is scheduled to speak at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday night.
Navarro, 75, was found guilty of contempt of Congress and sentenced in March to four months in a federal prison in Miami.
“I will go into prison proudly,” Navarro said at a news conference before his appearance. “I will be empowered that Donald John Trump is the nominee.”
Navarro is scheduled to speak in Milwaukee on Wednesday night at 6 p.m. local time.
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Peter Navarro, White House trade adviser to former President Donald Trump, arrives to speak to reporters at Country Mall Plaza before reporting to a federal prison in Miami, Florida, on March 19, 2024. (Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images)
The theme of Wednesday’s Republican National Convention is “Make America Strong Again.”
Navarro served as a trade adviser to former President Trump and was the second Trump aide to be convicted of contempt of Congress. White House Adviser Steve Bannon had already served a four-month prison sentence but was released pending appeal by U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee.
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Peter Navarro, a former White House adviser to President Trump, speaks to media outside the U.S. District Court, Friday, June 3, 2022, in Washington, DC.
Navarro said he could not cooperate with the committee investigating the January 6 attack. Because it’s Trump The president asserted executive privilege, but a lower court rejected that claim.
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“When I received the second subpoena from Congress, I honestly believed privilege was being invoked and it troubled me. Someone in my position should not be put in a position where they’re at odds with the legislative and executive branches. Is that the moral of this whole process? Call the letters and the lawyers? To some extent, I think it is,” Navarro said in January.
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“I am disappointed in the process that a jury found me guilty but denied me one of the most important elements of our justice system – the opportunity to defend myself,” he said.
Fox News Digital’s Anders Hagstrom contributed to this report.
