Former White House adviser Peter Navarro reported to prison Tuesday for a contempt of Congress conviction, becoming the first senior Trump administration official to be locked up for a crime related to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack.

Navarro was sentenced to four months in prison for defying a subpoena for documents and a deposition from the House committee that investigated the riot by supporters of then-President Donald Trump.

Navarro was defiant in remarks to reporters before he headed to the federal prison in Miami, calling his conviction the “partisan weaponization of the judicial system.”

  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Only because the dumbass refused a congressional subpoena.

    While the subpoena was related to the Jan 6 investigation; ultimately that’s not why he’s going to jail. He’s going to jail because he didn’t show up and profess a shitty memory,