HomeCrimeEx-Trump adviser Peter Navarro must report to prison: Judge

Ex-Trump adviser Peter Navarro must report to prison: Judge

Former Trump White House official Peter Navarro followed by demonstrators leaves the U.S. Federal Courthouse in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024. Navarro, who was convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to cooperate with a congressional investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, was sentenced on Thursday to four months behind bars. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Former Trump White House official Peter Navarro followed by demonstrators leaves the U.S. Federal Courthouse in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

A federal judge in Washington, D.C. has ordered Peter Navarro, the former White House trade adviser to Donald Trump and self-professed champion of a plan to contest ballots in the 2020 election, to report to prison as he appeals his conviction for contempt of Congress.

U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta sentenced Navarro to four months in prison last month, telling him he failed to express “a word of contrition” nor provide suitable evidence at his trial about his blatant failure to comply with a congressional subpoena from the House Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol. The body had asked Navarro for key records relating to its probe, specifically information Navarro could disclose about his own public claims that he and ex-Trump adviser Steve Bannon devised a plan known as the “Green Bay Sweep” to usher Trump into the White House.

Notably, it was Navarro’s report on so-called voter fraud that Trump cited in a Dec. 19, 2020, tweet claiming the adviser had found “more than sufficient” proof to swing the victory his way.

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