Cheers Erupt For Peter Navarro At RNC: ‘I Went To Prison So You Don’t Have To’

 Former Trump White House aide Peter Navarro walked on the stage at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday — hours after being released from federal prison — to thunderous applause and chants of “fight.”

Navarro, 75, was imprisoned for four months after being convicted of contempt of Congress charges. He was sentenced after he did not show up for a deposition with the Democrat-run January 6 committee and did not provide them with certain documents, citing the doctrine of executive privilege.

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Speaking to the crowd, Navarro broke down how the Democrats worked to imprison him. 

“Here’s how I got in prison: the legislative branch came for me first,” he said. “Your favorite Democrat, Nancy Pelosi, created your favorite committee, the sham January 6 committee, which demanded that I violate executive privilege.”

“What did I do? I refused,” he said to more applause. “The J6 committee demanded that I betray Donald John Trump to save my own skin. Irefused.”

“A Democrat majority in the House then voted to hold me in contempt,” he said. “The next jackboot to drop was the executive branch. Another one of your favorite Democrats, Democrat Attorney General Merrick Garland — there’s a winner. Him and Jack Smith indicted and prosecuted me for criminal contempt of Congress.”

 

“Now here’s what’s weird about it, it’s something that Democrat prosecutors refuse to do against one of their own,” Navarro said, citing Obama-era attorney general Eric Holder and current Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas.

Navarro told the crowd that the government targeted him and threw him in jail, but warned that it could happen to anyone on the Right. “I went to jail so you don’t have to,” he said numerous times during his speech.