(17 Jul 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Milwaukee – 17 July 2024
1. Various of ex-Trump adviser Peter Navarro carrying luggage from the vehicle to the hotel entrance, shaking hands with an adviser, hugging a supporter
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Peter Navarro, Ex-Trump Adviser:
"My message of unity is quite simple. We have to unite this country. And every Democrat disengaged from, disenfranchised by or disgusted with Joe Biden’s America and the radical left turn that the elites in the Democratic Party have taken, come on down to Trumpland."
++ENDS ON A SOUNDBITE++
STORYLINE:
Former Trump White House official Peter Navarro, released from prison Wednesday, pledged to offer a message of national unity when he speaks to the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.
In his first interview since his release from a Florida prison for contempt of Congress, Navarro told The Associated Press he was "enjoying the freedom" as he arrived at the Hyatt Hotel near the security perimeter for the convention.
"We have to unite this country. And every Democrat who is disengaged from, disenfranchised by or disgusted with Joe Biden’s America and the radical left turn that the elites in the Democratic party have taken, come on down to Trump land," Navarro said.
Navarro, who served as a White House trade adviser under Trump, was freed from custody after serving four months for refusing to cooperate with a congressional investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of the Republican president’s supporters, according to the federal Bureau of Prisons.
During a telephone interview, Navarro condemned the Biden administration for what he called the “weaponization” of the justice system, referring to the oft-repeated claim by conservatives that, during President Joe Biden’s administration, the justice system has been used to hobble former President Donald Trump and those close to him.
Navarro was the first senior Trump administration official to be locked up for a crime related to the Jan. 6 attack when he reported to a federal prison in Miami in March. He has called his conviction the “partisan weaponization of the judicial system.”
He was subpoenaed by the committee over his promotion of false claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election in the run-up to the Capitol insurrection. He has maintained that he couldn’t cooperate with the committee because Trump had invoked executive privilege. Courts have rejected that argument, finding that Navarro couldn’t prove Trump had actually invoked privilege.
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