Peter Navarro, Donald Trump's former economic adviser in the White House and a close ally of the former president, presented himself on Tuesday to a prison in Miami, in the southeastern United States, to serve a four-month prison sentence.
I will proudly go to prison and serve my sentence
He stressed that he is comfortable with the fact that Donald Trump will be the Republican nominee in the presidential elections in November.
Peter Navarro (74 years old) was sentenced last January to this term on charges of obstructing the investigative powers of Congress. In February 2022, he refused to attend the summons of the parliamentary committee that was investigating the events of January 6, 2021, and to provide it with documents.
On that day, hundreds of supporters of the outgoing Republican president stormed the Capitol building, the headquarters of the US Congress, in an attempt to prevent the certification of the victory of his Democratic rival, Joe Biden, in the 2020 elections.
Another former adviser to Donald Trump, Steve Bannon, a harbinger of right-wing populism, had already been sentenced to four months in prison in 2022 for the same facts, but was released pending his appeal.
The majority-conservative Supreme Court rejected a similar request from Peter Navarro on Monday, making his imprisonment inevitable.
Navarro pretends to be a victim of the Democrats
Before he captured himself, he denounced it Partisan exploitation of the judicial system
Blaming his fate, in a statement to the press, Damn Democrats and people who hate Trump
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I will proudly go to prison and serve my sentence
He stressed that he is comfortable with the fact that Donald Trump will be the Republican nominee in the presidential elections in November.
Peter Navarro reiterated his desire to appeal his conviction To appeal, then to the Supreme Court
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Donald Trump was not directly concerned by the courts with the assault on the Capitol, although the investigative committee on January 6, 2021 recommended, in December 2022, that criminal proceedings be taken against him, particularly because of his call for rebellion and conspiracy against American institutions.
However, he was indicted in August 2023 by a federal court in Washington, and then by Georgia state courts for his alleged illegal attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
