Former Trump adviser Peter Navarro has been released from a Miami federal prison after serving a four-month sentence for contempt of Congress. He had defied a subpoena from the January 6 congressional committee investigating the Capitol insurrection.
Navarro is expected to head to Milwaukee for the Republican National Convention, where Donald Trump, his former boss, has been officially nominated as the GOP’s 2024 presidential candidate.
He is one of two Trump associates convicted for failing to comply with subpoenas from the now-disbanded House Select Committee probing the January 6 events. Steve Bannon, another Trump adviser, began serving his own four-month sentence earlier this month at a federal prison in Connecticut.
Lawmakers sought Navarro’s cooperation in their investigation into Trump’s efforts to undermine the 2020 election results, his involvement in delaying Congress’ certification and his own statements in his memoir.
Navarro was found guilty last summer on two counts of contempt — for not producing documents and for skipping an interview the committee demanded. Before trial, Navarro argued he was following Trump’s orders under executive privilege, but the judge ruled he lacked sufficient evidence to support this.
Despite an unsuccessful emergency appeal to delay his sentence, Navarro is appealing his conviction itself.
Navarro spent his sentence at one of the nation’s oldest prison camps, housing under 200 inmates and notable for its aged infrastructure and predominantly Puerto Rican population.
