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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Since barry, we don’t need no stinkin’ law.
I was thinking something very similar when I read that.
Navarro was DENIED early release by foreign-born ‘Judge’ Amit Mehta...he served his FULL sentence.
Navarro was DENIED early release by foreign-born ‘Judge’ Amit Mehta...he served his FULL sentence.
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