Former White House Advisor Peter Navarro on Tuesday reported to a federal prison in Miami, making history as the first former White House official to be imprisoned for a contempt of Congress conviction.
“When I walk in that prison today, the justice system, such as it is, will have done a crippling blow to the constitutional separation of powers and executive privilege,” Navarro said. “The second and related story has to do with the emergence of lawfare and the partisan weaponization of our justice system, which we have seen come to this country with a vengeance since the coming of Donald John Trump as president, and that keeps getting worse.”
Navarro was sentenced to four months in prison for refusing to comply with a congressional subpoena from the House Select Committee that investigated the January 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol attack.
Before reporting to jail, Navarro spoke at a gas station and railed against the case against him.
“I am the first senior White House advisor in the history of our republic that has ever been charged with this alleged crime — and I say alleged because for hundreds of years, this has not been a crime, and for 50 years, the Department of Justice has maintained the principle of absolute testimony immunity.”
