Trump adviser Peter Navarro starts prison term for contempt of US Congress
Al Jazeera
Navarro is the first senior Trump official to be imprisoned for actions related to efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
Peter Navarro, a key adviser to the White House under former United States President Donald Trump, has turned himself in to a federal prison in Miami, Florida, to serve a four-month sentence for defying a congressional subpoena.
His arrival at the prison on Tuesday makes him the first senior Trump official to report to prison in relation to efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
“I am the first senior White House adviser in the history of our republic that has ever been charged with this alleged crime,” Navarro said in a fiery press conference outside the prison.
He also blamed members of the Democratic Party and judicial bias for his prison sentence.
“Every person who has taken me on this road to that prison is a friggin’ Democrat and a Trump hater,” he said, pointing towards the federal detention facility.
