Donald Trump Jr. Says Peter Navarro in ‘Good Spirits’ After Prison Visit: ‘Important to Show Support’
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Donald Trump Jr. confirmed he’s visited Peter Navarro in federal prison, saying the former White House trade advisor is in “good spirits.”
ABC News, citing sources familiar with the matter, first reported that Trump Jr. had made the prison visit, and the former president’s son confirmed he had made the visit, while also claiming Navarro was wrongfully convicted.
“It’s important to show support,” said Trump Jr..
Navarro is held at Federal Prison Camp in Miami, Florida. The former Donald Trump advisor was officially ordered to prison in March after being convicted of contempt of Congress for failing to comply with a subpoena from the congressional subcommittee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Navarro was given a four month prison sentence in September.
Navarro was charged for refusing to testify before the committee and failing to provide documentation related to the investigation.
Moments before reporting to prison in Miami, Navarro claimed his conviction showed an “assault on constitutional separation of powers” and the “partisan weaponization of our justice system.”
“When I walk in that prison today, the justice system such as it is will have done a crippling blow to the constitutional separation of powers and executive privilege,” he said.
MSNBC’s Ken Dilanian reported as Navarro reported to FCI Miami that past reports suggest his stay will be no “country club” despite the palm tree setting.
“[It] looks like a country club, but actually federal prisons are not country clubs,” he said. “We’ve reported on inspector general reports of prisons in Florida, minimum security prisons where the food was moldy, the conditions are terrible, so no one should be looking forward to spending time [there].”
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