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Peter Navarro, who previously served as former President Donald Trump's adviser, took the stage at the Republican National Convention the day he was released from prison.
Navarro spoke in Milwaukee on the third day of the RNC too loud cheers from the crowd. He discussed the need for control or else people like "me and Steve Bannon are in prison" and they "control the rest of us."
"Yes, indeed, this morning I did walk out of a federal prison in Miami," Navarro said. "Joe Biden and his department of injustice put me there."
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Navarro, who served as a trade adviser under Trump, was in custody for four months for refusing to cooperate with a congressional investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. He was the second Trump aide to face contempt of Congress charges.
At the RNC, Navarro said the legislative branch, specifically Nancy Pelosi and the "sham" January 6 Committee, "came for me first."
"The J-6 Committee demanded I betray Donald J. Trump to save my own skin," Navarro said. "I refused."
Navarro claimed that the committee asked him to "break the law because they have no respect for it."
"If Congress slaps a subpoena on a senior White House advisor like me, it's the advisor's duty to politely tell them to go pound sand," Navarro said. "That's exactly what I did.
To the response of cheers, Navarro told the crowd the jury may have convicted me "but they did not break me."
Navarro told The Associated Press earlier on Wednesday that his time in prison for contempt of Congress is just one example how President Joe Biden's administration uses judiciary power to punish its political enemies.
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"I'm a small part of the bigger issue," Navarro said. "If we don't control the government, the government will control us," Navarro said.
Navarro warned the RNC audience that the government will "come for" them as well.
"If they can come for me and if they can come for Donald Trump, be careful. They will come for you," Navarro said. "If we don't control our government, their government will control us."
Navarro shared his concerns with the current administration's work around education and boarder control.
"In Trump's America you didn't have to worry about being locked up for disagreeing with the government," Navarro said. "I went to prison so you won't have to. I am your wake-up call."
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