Peter Navarro, a former White House advisor to Donald Trump, surrendered to a federal prison in Miami on Tuesday afternoon to serve a four-month term for refusing to cooperate with a congressional conviction, The Hill reported.
Notably, Navarro has become the first Trump administration official to be imprisoned for his involvement in attempting to sabotage the 2020 election.
Navarro is slated to arrive around 11.30am ET on Tuesday at a federal prison in Miami to begin serving a four-month prison sentence, according to his lawyers.
Supreme Court denies Trump ally’s
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit dismissed Navarro’s request to halt his sentence while he appealed, triggering an emergency motion to the Supreme Court last week.
Source: The Daily Beast
In a brief decision, Roberts said he saw “no basis to disagree” with the DC Circuit’s determination that Navarro had forfeited several arguments attempting to avoid incarceration, “which is distinct from his pending appeal on the merits”.
Navarro has claimed that he did not have to comply with Congress because he believed Trump had used the legal notion of executive privilege, which protects certain presidential records and communications from exposure.
Navarro was the second prominent Trump adviser to be convicted of contempt of Congress for rebuffing the House panel. Former Trump adviser and rightwing firebrand Steve Bannon was sentenced to four months in prison in 2022. He has avoided serving the sentence while he appeals his conviction.
