Former Trump adviser Peter Navarro to speak at Republican National Committee hours after prison release

Peter Navarro, a senior adviser to then-President Donald Trump, has been released from a Miami jail and is expected to speak at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday night.

Navarro, 75, was convicted of contempt of Congress and sentenced to four months in federal prison in Miami in March.

“I will go there with pride to serve my sentence,” Navarro said at a news conference before surrendering. “I will draw strength from this idea: Donald John Trump is the candidate.”

Navarro is scheduled to speak at 6 p.m. local time in Milwaukee on Wednesday night.

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Peter Navarro, White House trade adviser to former President Donald Trump, arrives to speak to the press at Country Mall Plaza before reporting to the Federal Correctional Institution, in Miami, Florida, on March 19, 2024. (Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images)

The theme of the RNC on Wednesday is “Make America Strong Again.”

Navarro, who served as a trade adviser to former President Trump, is the second Trump aide to be found in contempt of Congress. White House Adviser Steve Bannon had already been sentenced to four months in prison but was allowed to remain free pending appeal by U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee.

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Former Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro speaks to the media outside U.S. District Court, Friday, June 3, 2022, in Washington, DC.

Navarro said he could not cooperate with the commission investigating the January 6 attack. because Trump had invoked executive privilege, an argument that lower courts rejected.

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“When I got this subpoena from Congress, the second one, I had a sincere belief that privilege had been invoked, and I had mixed feelings. No one in my position should be put in a bind between the legislative branch and the executive branch. Is that the lesson of this whole process? Get a letter and a lawyer? I think in some ways it is,” Navarro said in January.

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“I am disappointed by a process in which a jury convicted me and I was unable to provide a defense, one of the most important elements of our justice system,” he said.

Anders Hagstrom of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.