- Navarro, 74, began a four-month sentence for contempt of Congress in March
- The Supreme Court rejected his latest request for release while he appeals
Donald Trump’s former trade adviser Peter Navarro will have to remain in federal prison after the Supreme Court rejected his request for release while he appeals.
The 74-year-old reported to the Federal Correctional Institution in Miami in March to begin a four-month sentence for contempt of Congress.
He began his time behind bars after Chief Justice John Roberts rejected his bid for release at the eleventh hour.
Today, the highest court in the United States rejected another request to release the 80-person dormitory for older inmates.
Donald Trump’s former trade adviser Peter Navarro will have to remain in federal prison after the Supreme Court rejected his request for release while he appeals.
His request to Justice Neil Gorsuch was referred to the full court, which then denied it.
Navarro was convicted of two counts of criminal contempt of Congress last year after he defied a subpoena to testify before the Jan. 6 House committee investigating the Capitol riot.
He was sentenced to four months in prison and fined $9,500, but almost immediately appealed.
Navarro argued that he was bound by executive privilege when he ignored the subpoena.
But the main problem the judge mentioned in court was that there was no evidence that this had ever been invoked.
One of his bids was also rejected by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, DC.
They concluded it was unlikely he could get a new trial or overturn his conviction.
Navarro served as a trade adviser during Trump’s presidency and is the first senior official in his administration to be imprisoned in connection with his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
Before handing himself over to the prison guards, he told reporters gathered in a parking lot across the street that he would serve his sentence “proudly.”
The 74-year-old reported to the Federal Correctional Institution in Miami in March to begin a four-month sentence for contempt of Congress.
Today, the highest court in the United States rejected another request to vacate the 80-person dormitory for elderly inmates.
Before surrendering to prison guards in March, Navarro told reporters gathered in a parking lot across the street that he would serve his sentence “proudly.”
Navarro was President Donald Trump’s trade adviser. They are seen together in 2020 examining an all-electric pickup truck on the South Lawn of the White House.
“When I enter this prison today,” he said, “the justice system as it exists will have dealt a crippling blow to the constitutional separation of powers and executive privilege.”
The setting, outside a shopping center next to a Shell gas station, was an unremarkable backdrop for such a provocative speech and a man who, as a White House trade adviser, was once a regular at the Oval Office.
“I will walk there proudly to do my time,” he said. “I will draw strength from this: Donald John Trump is the candidate.”
After Trump’s loss to Joe Biden, Navarro became a strong believer in conspiracy theories that the election was stolen.
He collected files to support his claims with titles such as “The Art of Stealing” and “Immaculate Deception.”
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