2024-07-17 15:51:56
Peter Navarro, a former economic adviser to Donald Trump and a Republican convention hopeful, was released from a Florida prison on Wednesday after serving his four-month sentence, the Federal Prison Administration said.
He was convicted of refusing to cooperate with the parliamentary investigation into the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
He refused to testify before the House of Representatives committee investigating the attack on the Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump and refused to provide documents.
Peter Navarro, 75, had to leave Miami, where he was in a federal prison, to go to the Republican Convention in Milwaukee, in the north of the country. He is on the list of speakers at the high mass of the Republic.
A Harvard-educated economist, Mr Navarro is the most senior former member of the Trump administration to spend time behind bars for supporting the former president in his alleged attempt to change the results of the 2020 election.
He was found guilty of obstructing a parliamentary investigation by a federal jury in Washington after a two-day trial. Before he himself was taken prisoner, he denounced the “partisan exploitation of the judicial system”, attributing his fate in a statement to the press “to the Democrats and people who hate Trump”.
Another senior adviser to Donald Trump and who announced the appointment of the right wing, Steve Bannon, began to appeal his sentence on July 1, he was convicted of the same facts.
Donald Trump was due to go on trial in March for the alleged attempt to overturn the outcome of the election four years ago, but the Supreme Court recently extended the President’s criminal immunity and his trial is unlikely to take place before the election in November.
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