Ex-Trump Adviser Peter Navarro Released From Prison, Set To Speak At RNC

Former Donald Trump adviser Peter Navarro was released from a Miami federal prison on Wednesday after completing a four-month sentence for defying a congressional subpoena. He’s now slated to speak at the Republican National Convention hours later in Milwaukee.

Navarro, who promoted baseless claims of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election, was convicted in September of two counts of contempt of Congress for refusing to testify and provide documents to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

He was the first senior Trump aide to serve a prison sentence for actions related to the riot. Fellow former Trump adviser Steve Bannon began serving his own four-month sentence for contempt of Congress earlier this month after losing an appeal.

Navarro is expected to head to the RNC, which began its third day on Wednesday, to give a speech around 6:30 p.m. local time, according to a schedule posted on the RNC website.

Trump appeared at the convention on Monday and Tuesday alongside his freshly selected vice presidential nominee, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio.

Trump has called Navarro a “good man” and a “great patriot,” while Navarro has called his own conviction a “partisan weaponization of the judicial system.”

Navarro’s team celebrated his release on Wednesday by posting “The best is yet to come!” on X, the social media site previously known as Twitter.