MILWAUKEE — Former Trump aide Peter Navarro — fresh out of a four-month term in federal prison for defying a subpoena to testify to the House Jan. 6 Committee — addressed the Republican National Convention on Wednesday night, just hours after his release. The RNC delegates greeted Navarro with a standing ovation lasting more than a minute.
Making light of his time in the joint, Navarro said in jest: “You folks just want to know if you can see the MAGA tattoo that I got in there.” Navarro regaled the audience with the tale of how “Joe Biden and his department of injustice put me there” because the Jan. 6 committee had demanded he “betray Donald John Trump to save my own skin.
I refused.” Navarro warned the crowd: “If they can come for me, if they can come for Donald Trump , be careful. They will come for you.
” The crowd lustily applauded this convicted criminal when he insisted of his supposed persecution: “They did not break me. And they will never break Donald Trump.” Trump has privately promised to reward for Navarro for holding his tongue and not becoming yet another Trump sycophant-turned-“fucking rat.
” (That is a preferred, profane term that former President Trump has often used — especially when privately mocking his ex-fixer Michael Cohen — to ridicule those who’ve turned on him or flipped under pressure from law enforcement.) For days, various sources close to Trump and other Republicans working at the convention reveled in the unve.