Fresh Out Of Prison, Ex-Trump Aide And Jan. 6 Coup Plotter Gets Hero’s Welcome At RNC

MILWAUKEE – Just hours out of prison, former aide to Donald Trump and fellow coup plotter Peter Navarro received a hero’s welcome at the Republican National Convention Wednesday evening.

“Yes, indeed, this morning I did walk out of political prison,” Navarro told the cheering arena, after being greeted with an extended standing ovation. “Joe Biden and his department of injustice put me there.”

Navarro, 75, in 2020 came up with a scheme he called the “Green Bay Sweep” to block the congressional certification of Democrat Joe Biden’s presidential election victory and send the election to the House of Representatives. There, Trump would likely have won because each state is afforded a single vote, and more state delegations were controlled by Republicans.

Unlike other Trump aides, many of whom tried to conceal their roles in overturning an election their boss lost by 7 million votes, Navarro openly boasted of his plan in a book and numerous interviews. He blamed the scheme’s failure on Trump’s vice president, Mike Pence, who refused to take part.

“Pence betrayed Trump,” he told The Washington Examiner.

Also unlike most Trump aides, who honored requests to cooperate with the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol, Navarro openly defied a subpoena to testify.

The committee recommended Navarro be prosecuted for that choice, and last September he was convicted by a Washington, D.C., jury on contempt of Congress charges. In March, an appellate court upheld the conviction, rejecting his claim that Trump’s executive privilege prevented him from testifying.

He was scolded for his claims that he was being persecuted by the federal judge who sentenced him to four months in prison.

“Let’s make clear,