Posted on 07/12/2024 7:50:59 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
NEW YORK (AP) — Former White House trade advisor Peter Navarro, who is currently in jail on contempt of Congress charges, is expected to speak at next week’s Republican National Convention just hours after his release.
That’s according to two people familiar with the event’s schedule who spoke on condition of anonymity to share details before they were formally announced.
Navarro is set to be released from a Miami prison on Wednesday, July 17, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ online database of current inmates. That would give him just enough time to board a plane and make it to Milwaukee before the convention wraps Thursday. He was found guilty in September of contempt of Congress charges for refusing to cooperate with a congressional investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
His attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The decision to include Navarro on the program suggests convention organizers may not shy away from those who have been charged with crimes related to the attack — and the lies that helped spur it — at the party’s nominating event, which will draw millions of viewers across days of prime-time programming.
Navarro, who served as a Trump’s White House trade adviser, promoted baseless claims of mass voter fraud in the 2020 election and was subpoenaed by the committee investigating the attack.
Before he reported to federal prison in March for a four-month sentence, Navarro called his conviction the “partisan weaponization of the judicial system.”
He has maintained that he couldn’t cooperate with the committee because the former president had invoked executive privilege. But the court rejected that argument, finding Navarro couldn’t prove Trump actually had.
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They will change his date of release.
RE: They will change his date of release.
Can’t happen. That’s against the law.
Words that no longer have any meaning in America: “That’s against the law.”
Some flunkie will somehow “accidentally” lose the required paperwork.
Navarro will get out - but not in time for the convention.
Wonderful, I’m looking forward to it.
“baseless claims”
Objective media at work here.
Only my girlfriend and her daughter are stupid enough to believe this.
LOL
Isn't it funny how A/G Garland also refused to cooperate with a congressional investigation - yet he reamins free with no worries. And how is this possible?
Thank The Stupid Party.
Political prisoner in the USA.
AP is just a disgusted land fill
Peter is one of the best Republicans around. I am sure, he will have very significant function in the new Trump administration
Sadly, that is true. Just look at how Merrick Garland operates. Just look at the members of The American Gulag, made of J6 prisoners, many who still don’t have trial dates.
Glad to hear he has rehabilitated himself /s
We need to celebrate our brave political prisoners. They remind us we are fighting for our most basic freedoms.
that’s the speech i will tune in for. he is my hero all the way around
Yes, Navarro should be on fire over that, and over the four Republican Congressman who wants the little worm to skate. The Republicans should began the process of voting them out of Congress.
He easily can be Epstein-ed before 7/17. (And Bannon didn’t kill himself, either.)
“Political prisoner in the USA.”
Re Navarro, Bannon, the J6-ers, I don’t know which term is more accurate, “political prisoners” or “prisoners of war” (POW).
We definitely in a war here.
July 16 - good behavior early release.
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