Peter Navarro airs grievances in convention speech hours after prison release
by Hugo Lowell in Milwaukee from US news | The Guardian on (#6P9YF)
Ex-Trump official portrayed his contempt of Congress charges for obstructing January 6 inquiry as overreach
Walking out to a standing ovation, Peter Navarro, the former Trump official, delivered a speech of personal grievances at the Republican national convention on Wednesday, hours after he was released from federal prison following his conviction on contempt of Congress charges for obstructing the January 6 committee investigation.
The former Trump White House adviser tried - as he has done previously - to portray his criminal case as an egregious overreach of prosecutorial power, taking a page from Trump's own playbook to claim he was a martyr taking hits on behalf of voters.
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