NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� Former White House trade advisor , who is currently in jail on contempt of Congress charges, is expected to speak at next week's Republican National Convention just hours after his release.
That's according to two people familiar with the event's schedule who spoke on condition of anonymity to share details before they were formally announced.
Navarro is set to be released from a Miami prison on Wednesday, July 17, giving him just enough time to board a plane and make it to Milwaukee before the convention wraps Thursday. He was of contempt of Congress charges for refusing to cooperate with a congressional investigation into on the U.S. Capitol.
His attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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 鈥� and the lies that helped spur it 鈥� at the party's nominating event, which will draw millions of viewers across days of prime-time programming.
Navarro, who served as a Trump's White House trade adviser, promoted of mass voter fraud in the 2020 election and was subpoenaed by the committee investigating the attack.
Before he for a four-month sentence, Navarro called his conviction the 鈥減artisan weaponization of the judicial system.鈥�
He has maintained that he couldn鈥檛 cooperate with the committee because the former president had invoked executive privilege. But the court rejected that argument, finding Navarro couldn鈥檛 prove Trump actually had.
鈥淲hen I walk in that prison today, the justice system 鈥� such as it is 鈥� will have done a crippling blow to the constitutional separation of powers and executive privilege,鈥� Navarro said the day he reported for his sentence.
Trump, meanwhile, has called Navarro 鈥渁 good man鈥� and 鈥済reat patriot鈥� who was 鈥渢reated very unfairly.鈥�
Navarro had asked to stay free while he appealed his conviction to give the courts time to consider his challenge. But Washington鈥檚 federal appeals court to stave off his sentence, finding his appeal wasn鈥檛 likely to reverse his conviction.
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts , saying in a written order that Navarro had 鈥渘o basis to disagree鈥� with the appeals court.
Navarro was the second Trump aide convicted of . Former White House adviser Steve Bannon previously received 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. , the panel ultimately concluded that Trump criminally engaged in a 鈥渕ulti-part conspiracy鈥� 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.
Jill Colvin, The Associated Press
