(HorizonPost.com) – Former Trump administration official Peter Navarro was released from prison last Wednesday morning after serving a four-month sentence for contempt of Congress.
Navarro was convicted last fall of two counts of contempt for defying a subpoena from the former January 6 select committee. He was sentenced in January to four months but asked the judge to allow him to remain free while he appealed his conviction.
However, in February, US District Court Judge Amit Mehta denied Navarro’s request and ordered him to prison. An appellate court upheld the judge’s decision, and after the Supreme Court refused his emergency petition to intervene, Navarro reported to a Miami low-security federal prison in mid-March.
Upon his release last Wednesday morning, the former Trump trade advisor traveled to Milwaukee where he addressed the delegates at the Republican National Convention that evening.
The delegates greeted Navarro with an ovation that lasted roughly a minute before he began to address the crowd.
In a fiery speech that was out of keeping with the rest of the convention’s message of unity, the defiant Navarro accused the January 6 committee of demanding that he betray Trump “to save my own skin” and proudly declared that he refused.
Navarro portrayed himself as a martyr for the cause and warned the audience that any of them could be the next target. He told the crowd that if any of them believed that what happened to him wouldn’t happen to them, they should know that “they are already coming for you.”
According to Sam Mangle, Navarro’s prison consultant, the former Trump advisor was “well respected” by fellow inmates and prison staff.
During his four months in prison, Navarro was placed in the “elder dorm” and worked in the prison library.
Mangle told ABC News that Navarro served his sentence with “fortitude” and “surprising grace.”
Peter Navarro served as the director of the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy in the Trump White House. He was the first former Trump official to be sentenced to prison in connection to the January 6 riot.
Podcaster Steve Bannon, who was fired from the Trump White House in 2017, began serving his four-month sentence for contempt of Congress on July 1.
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