‘That is not the law’: Unlike Steve Bannon, ex-Trump adviser Peter Navarro is ordered by judge to go to prison

Former Trump White House official Peter Navarro followed by demonstrators leaves the U.S. Federal Courthouse in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024. Navarro, who was convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to cooperate with a congressional investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, was sentenced on Thursday to four months behind bars. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Former Trump White House official Peter Navarro followed by demonstrators leaves the U.S. Federal Courthouse in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Peter Navarro, Steve Bannon’s self-professed co-orchestrator of the bogus voter fraud strategy known as the “Green Bay Sweep,” has asked a federal judge to release him from prison and let him serve out the remainder of his contempt of Congress sentence on supervised release for 30 days.

Navarro, who also served as a trade adviser to former President Donald Trump, was sentenced to four months in prison for two misdemeanor counts for his refusal to comply with a subpoena from the House Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol. Navarro was convicted by a jury in Washington, D.C., in September.

He has made multiple attempts to have his sentence remanded or headed off altogether, including making requests to the Supreme Court but those have summarily failed.

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