Ex-Trump adviser Peter Navarro sentenced to 4 months for contempt of Congress

Former Trump White House official Peter Navarro was sentenced Thursday to four months in prison for contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol attack.

Navarro, who served as a trade adviser in the Trump administration, was convicted in September of two counts of contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a congressional subpoena for documents and testimony related to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

He is the second former Trump insider to be convicted and sentenced for contempt of Congress. Steve Bannon was found guilty in 2022 of the same charges and sentenced to four months in prison. Bannon has appealed his conviction.

"You are not a victim. You are not the object of a political prosecution. You are not," Judge Amit Mehta told Navarro as he announced the sentence. "You have received every process you are due. Every process."

"Your obligation as an American is to cooperate with Congress, to provide them with the information they were seeking," Mehta added. "They have a job to do, and you made it harder. It's really that simple. It wasn't a kangaroo court. The public could see that."

In addition to the four-month sentence, Mehta also ordered Navarro to pay a $9,500 fine.

Prosecutors had asked the court for a six-month sentence.

At Thursday's hearing, prosecutor John Crabb argued that Navarro "believes he is above the law."

"The defendant brazenly defied Congress," Crabb said. "The behavior cannot be countenanced."

The defense, which has argued that executive privilege shielded Navarro from having to testify or produce documents to the committee, had asked for probation. They are expected to appeal his conviction.

Navarro was not expected to speak at