MIAMI ā Former White House trade advisor Peter Navarro, who was convicted of contempt of Congress charges in September, was released from the Federal Correctional Institution in Miami on Wednesday, a source confirmed to Local 10 News.
Navarro, who served as Trumpās White House trade adviser, promoted baseless claims of mass voter fraud in the 2020 election and was found guilty for refusing to cooperate with a congressional investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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Navarro is expected to speak on his sentencing at the Republican National Convention on Thursday at 6:36 p.m., according to ABC News.
His attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Navarroās prison consultant Sam Mangel told ABC News that during Navarroās four-month prison sentence, he worked at the prison library and lived in the āelder dorm.ā
Navarro did not have any issues with other inmates or staff and was āwell respectedā while serving his sentence,ā Mangel said.
Mangel said Navarro got through his sentence with āsurprising grace and fortitudeā but is āhappy itās over,ā ABC News confirmed.
āAt 4 p.m. and 10 p.m. you have to stand by your bed and be counted,ā said Mangel. āEverybody wears the same color clothes, eats the same food, and sleeps in the same bunk.ā
āItās a very degrading, humiliating experience for anyone,ā Mangel added. āIām quite sure heās happy itās over and heās now able to move on with his life.ā
The decision to include Navarro on the program suggests convention organizers may not shy away from those who have been charged with crimes related to the attack ā and the lies that helped spur it ā at the party's nominating event, which will draw millions of viewers across days of prime-time programming.
Before he reported to federal prison in March for a four-month sentence, Navarro called his conviction the āpartisan weaponization of the judicial system.ā
He has maintained that he couldnāt cooperate with the committee because the former president had invoked executive privilege. But the court rejected that argument, finding Navarro couldnāt prove Trump actually had.
āWhen I walk in that prison today, the justice system ā such as it is ā will have done a crippling blow to the constitutional separation of powers and executive privilege,ā Navarro said the day he reported for his sentence.
Trump, meanwhile, has called Navarro āa good manā and āgreat patriotā who was ātreated very unfairly.ā
Navarro had asked to stay free while he appealed his conviction to give the courts time to consider his challenge. But Washingtonās federal appeals court denied his bid to stave off his sentence, finding his appeal wasnāt likely to reverse his conviction.
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts also refused to step in, saying in a written order that Navarro had āno basis to disagreeā with the appeals court.
Navarro was the second Trump aide convicted of contempt of Congress charges. Former White House adviser Steve Bannon previously received a four-month sentence that he is serving now.
Trump himself was convicted in May on 34 counts of falsifying business records in his criminal hush money trial.
The Jan. 6 House committee spent 18 months investigating the events, interviewing over 1,000 witnesses, holding 10 hearings and obtaining more than 1 million pages of documents. In its final report, the panel ultimately concluded that Trump criminally engaged in a āmulti-part conspiracyā to overturn the election results and failed to act to stop his supporters from storming the Capitol.
Trump has also been charged for his efforts to overturn the election in both Washington, D.C., and in Georgia, but both cases are currently on hold.