Peter Navarro Released from Prison, Set to Speak at Republican National Convention

Former Trump White House official Peter Navarro has been released from prison after serving a four-month sentence for contempt of Congress. He will speak at the Republican National Convention about his conviction and ongoing political issues. The Associated Press reported his scheduled appearance at the event.

Former Trump White House official Peter Navarro was released from prison on Wednesday after completing his sentence for a contempt of Congress conviction. He is expected to address the Republican National Convention just hours later.

Navarro, who served as a White House trade adviser under President Donald Trump, was freed after serving four months for refusing to cooperate with a congressional investigation into the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol by a mob of the Republican president's supporters, according to the federal Bureau of Prisons.

Navarro will head directly to Milwaukee to speak at the third night of the Republican National Convention, around 6 pm Central time, as per an anonymous source familiar with the schedule. The Associated Press was the first to report Navarro's planned address.

Navarro was the first senior Trump administration official to be incarcerated for a crime related to the January 6 attack when he reported to a federal prison in Miami in March. He has called his conviction the "partisan weaponisation of the judicial system." He was subpoenaed by the committee over his promotion of false claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election, leading up to the Capitol insurrection. He maintains that he couldn't cooperate with the committee because Trump had invoked executive privilege, a defense the courts have rejected.

Longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon also reported to prison earlier this month to begin his four-month sentence on contempt of Congress charges for defying a subpoena in the January 6 investigation.

The House committee spent 18 months investigating the deadly insurrection, interviewing more than 1,000 witnesses, holding 10 hearings, and obtaining more than 1 million pages of documents. Its final report concluded that Trump criminally engaged in a "multi-part conspiracy" to overturn his election loss to Democrat Joe Biden and failed to act to stop his supporters from storming the Capitol. Trump continues to assert he did nothing wrong.

(With inputs from agencies.)