Former Trump adviser Peter Navarro was released from federal prison Wednesday morning after serving his sentence for contempt of Congress.
Navarro was convicted in September of two counts of contempt of Congress for refusing to provide testimony and documents to the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
He spent four months in a low-security detention center in Miami.
Navarro was scheduled to speak Wednesday night at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee and was en route from Miami to Milwaukee Wednesday morning, sources said.
Testifying at Navarro’s trial, former January 6 Committee staff director David Buckley said the House committee sought to question Navarro about efforts to delay congressional certification of the 2020 election, a plan Navarro dubbed the “Green Bay Sweep” in his book, “In Trump Time.”
Navarro unsuccessfully argued that former President Donald Trump asserted executive privilege over his testimony and production of his documents.
During his sentence, Navarro worked in the prison library and lived in the “seniors’ dorm,” Navarro’s corrections consultant, Sam Mangel, told ABC News.
Former Donald Trump adviser Peter Navarro holds a news conference before heading to federal prison on March 19, 2024, in Miami.
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Navarro had no problems with other inmates or staff and was “very well respected,” Mangel said.
The prison consultant told ABC News that Navarro served his sentence with “surprising grace and courage.”
“At 4 p.m. and 10 p.m., you have to stand by your bed and be counted,” Mangel says. “Everyone wears the same color clothes, eats the same food, and sleeps in the same bunk.”
“It’s a very degrading and humiliating experience for everyone,” Mangel said. “I’m sure he’s happy it’s over and he can now move on with his life.”
Navarro, who served under Trump as director of the White House Office of Trade and Industrial Policy, was the first former Trump adviser to go to prison for actions related to the Jan. 6 attack. Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon, who was also convicted of contempt of Congress, began his four-month prison sentence earlier this month.
