MAGA Loyalist Peter Navarro Gets 4 Months in Prison for ‘Brazenly’ Defying Congress

Peter Navarro, the former White House aide to Donald Trump who was convicted last year on a pair of contempt of Congress charges for refusing to comply with a Jan. 6 committee subpoena, was sentenced to four months in a federal prison on Thursday.

Navarro, 74, will also have to pay a $9,500 fine, ruled U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta.

“They had a job to do and you made it harder,” said Mehta on Thursday, slamming Navarro’s refusal to testify in front of Congress. “It’s really that simple.”

Navarro initially indicated he wouldn’t speak at his sentencing hearing, citing his lawyers’ advice, but he changed his mind, insisting before the court that he thought he was protected by executive privilege when he ignored the committee’s subpoena.