Who is Peter Navarro? Former Trump adviser to address RNC after being released from prison
Donald Trump’s form top trade advisor, Peter Navarro, was released from a federal prison on Wednesday. He’s expected to speak at the GOP convention.
The 2024 Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin officially kicked off on Monday. Attendees have been treated to speeches from prominent names in the GOP including some of his challengers in the primaries like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley.
Among those who were part of Republican nominee’s previous administration that are expected to give a speech on the floor at the Fiserv Forum arena in Downtown Cream City is Peter Navarro. He wasn’t able to attend the first two days of the RNC due to one minor hangup, he was in a Florida federal prison. However, he got out on Wednesday and it’s been announced that he will be on stage to address the assembled Republicans before the GOP convention this evening.
Who is Peter Navarro? Former Trump adviser to address RNC after being released from prison
Navarro was serving a four-month sentence in a federal correctional facility in Miami for defying a congressional subpoena from the January 6 committee investigating the assault on the US Capitol to stop the Electoral College vote count in 2021. He is Trump’s former Director of United States Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy and one of the administration’s promoters of baseless claims of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential elections.
The House select committee had sought documents and testimony in connection with his conduct and the efforts to delay the official proceedings to certify the Electoral College votes. Trump’s top trade advisor has argued that he was defying the subpoena as he was bound by executive privilege.
Although he was sentenced in January, he didn’t report to prison until March after the Supreme Court refused his emergency appeal to stay free while he tried to get his conviction overturned. A lower court had ruled that Navarro couldn’t prove that Trump had invoked executive privilege and that his appeal of the verdict was unlikely to be successful.