Ex-Trump-Adviser Navarro cheerily received at party after release from detention
Navarro served a four-month prison sentence in a federal prison for contempt of the US Congress. The former White House advisor was released from the detention center in Miami, Florida on a Wednesday and then traveled directly to Milwaukee. Navarro was convicted for refusing to testify before the Congress about the storming of the Capitol by fanatical Trump supporters on January 20, 2021.
Navarro is the highest-ranking former member of the Trump administration who was charged for actions related to the massive interventions of the former President and his circle against the 2020 election. Navarro played a central role in plans to prevent the certification of President Joe Biden's election victory by the Congress. The Trump supporters stormed the Capitol building in Washington as this certification process was taking place.
"They have convicted me, they have put me in prison. And advise me! They haven't broken me. And they will never break Donald Trump", Navarro said in his party speech. Cheers rose from the hall: "Fight! Fight! Fight!"
Besides Navarro, Trump's former chief strategist Steve Bannon was also sentenced to prison for contempt of Congress, as he refused to testify before a congressional investigative committee about the storming of the Capitol. Bannon began his four-month prison term in early July.
Trump himself was indicted criminally in two cases for attempting to overturn his election loss to Biden - before a federal court in Washington and through the state justice system of Georgia. The conservative-majority US Supreme Court granted Trump extensive immunity against prosecution for official actions as President in early July.
This decision primarily concerns the case pending before the Washington federal court, in which Trump is charged with conspiracy against the 2020 election. The trial is unlikely to begin before the Presidential election on November 5 - and if Trump wins, he could then instruct the Justice Department to withdraw the indictment.
- After serving his four-month sentence in Miami, Florida, Peter Navarro, a former Trump advisor, ventured to Milwaukee.
- Navarro's prison term was due to his refusal to testify before U.S. Congress about the Capitol storming by Trump supporters on January 20, 2021.
- Navarro, being the highest-ranking former Trump administration member charged for actions related to the 2020 election, played a significant role in preventing Biden's election victory certification.
- Similarly, Steve Bannon, Trump's former chief strategist, also received a four-month prison sentence for contempt of Congress for refusing to testify about the Capitol storming.
- In the Republican Party convention, Navarro delivered a speech, asserting that his imprisonment had not broken him, and it would never break Trump either.
- Trump himself faced two criminal indictments for attempting to overturn his election loss to Biden, one in Washington and another through Georgia's state justice system.
- Despite being charged with conspiracy against the 2020 election in Washington, the trial's commencement is unlikely before the November 5 presidential election, and if Trump wins, he could instruct the Justice Department to withdraw the indictment.
