Ex-Trump Adviser Peter Navarro Addresses Republican National Convention Hours After Being Released from Prison

Peter Navarro addressed the Republican National Convention on Wednesday night, just hours after being released from federal prison.

Navarro, a former trade adviser to former President Donald Trump , was introduced to raucous applause at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. On Wednesday, he completed a four-month prison sentence in Florida after being convicted of contempt of Congress. In 2022, he was subpoenaed by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot and Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. The committee issued a criminal referral to the Department of Justice, which successfully prosecuted him at trial.

Upon taking the stage in Milwaukee, Navarro received an enthusiastic standing ovation for nearly a minute and a half.

“This is a beautiful thing,” he began. “And I think you folks just wanna know if you can see my MAGA tattoo I got there. Yes, indeed. This morning, I did walk out of federal prison in Miami.”

The crowd cheered wildly.

“Joe Biden and his department of injustice put me there,” Navarro continued. “I’ve got a very simple message for you. If they can come for me, and if they can come for Donald Trump, be careful. They will come for you.”

Navarro had been one of the Trump administration’s most prominent proponents of a harebrained scheme in which Vice President Mike Pence would refuse to certify the election results while presiding over the election’s certification in Congress. After explaining the plan a year later to MSNBC’s Ari Melber, the host told Navarro, “Do you realize you are describing a coup?”

Navarro could have complied with the subpoena and invoked the Fifth Amendment, but he chose to ignore it entirely while citing executive privilege. A federal jury in Washington, D.C. convicted him in less than four hours.

Trump himself has also been convicted. In May, the former president was found guilty by a Manhattan jury on 34 counts of falsifying business records to conceal hush money payments to cover up extramarital affairs before the 2016 election. He is under indictment in two other jurisdictions for his attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. On Monday, a federal judge in Florida tossed

Watch above via C-SPAN.