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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 RNC 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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