Trump White House official Peter Navarro sentenced to 4 months for defying Jan 6 subpoena

Peter Navarro, who served in the White House under former President Donald Trump, was sentenced Thursday for flouting a House Jan. 6 committee subpoena. 

U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta sentenced Navarro to four months in prison and ordered him to pay a fine of $9,500. 

That's two months shorter than the six prosecutors had sought, but Mehta drastically reduced the whopping $200,000 fine sought by the Justice Department. 

A former adviser to the president on trade and manufacturing policies, Navarro was convicted in September of two counts of contempt of...