Ex-Trump aide Peter Navarro gets raucous reception at RNC hours after leaving federal prison

Donald Trump’s former trade adviser Peter Navarro walked out of a federal prison in Miami on Wednesday after serving a four-month sentence for contempt of Congress to a standing ovation as he strode on the stage of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.

Navarro appeared emotional at times as he waited the applause to die down before he quipped: “I think you folks just want to know if you can see my MAGA tattoo I got there.”

His time in federal prison came after a Washington, DC jury convicted Navarro on two counts of contempt of Congress last year after he defied subpoenas for his testimony in connection with a House committee’s investigation into the events surrounding January 6 and Trump’s attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

He reported to federal prison authorities in March, becoming the first member of Trump’s inner circle to go to jail for any crime connected to the attack on the Capitol and the former president’s campaign to reverse his election loss.

Before he surrendered, Navarro lashed out at the judges and jurors who heard his case and rejected his appeals, baselessly accusing them of conspiring with Democratic officials.

“Democrat, Democrat, Democrat from start to finish,” he told reporters before walking through a parking lot and into a prison facility.

“This is the partisan weaponization of our judicial system,” he said. “I will gather strength from this.”

Now, months later, Navarro again lashed out at Democrats in Congress and the judge who sentenced him to prison, Amit Mehta, and warned that unless the GOP can gain control of all three branches of the American government, Republicans would not be allowed to commit crimes.

“If we don’t control all three branches of