Ex-Trump adviser Peter Navarro, 74 surrenders at Miami federal prison to serve ... trends now

View
comments

Former Trump aide Peter Navarro reported to prison on Tuesday claiming his prison sentence represented a 'crippling blow' to the American principle of the separation of powers.

Navarro, 74, served as trade adviser during Trump's presidency and is the first senior member of his administration to be imprisoned in connection with efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.

He told reporters gathered in a parking lot across the street from the Miami Federal Correctional Institution that he would serve his time 'proudly.'

'When I walk in that prison today,' he said, 'the justice system such as it is will have done a crippling blow to the constitutional separation of powers and executive privilege.'

The setting, outside a strip mall beside a Shell gas station, made a mundane backdrop for such a defiant speech and a man who as White House trade adviser was once a regular in the Oval Office.