Last September, he was convicted on two counts of contempt of Congress for not complying with a request from the House committee. Each count carries a mandatory minimum sentence of a month in prison, but prosecutors sought a sentence of six months imprisonment for each count — noting that they could be served concurrently — and a $200,000 fine. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta rejected Navarro's defense, which was that Trump personally directed him not to comply with the subpoena, stating his belief that he was shielded by executive privilege, as reported by the New York Times. “The words executive privilege are not magical incantations,” Judge Mehta said. “It’s just not, it’s not a get-out-of-jail-free card.” Navarro, 74, published a memoir and explained that he, along with former Trump advisor Steve Bannon, created a plan called Green Bay Sweep, which aimed to delay certification of Electoral College votes from contested swing states suspected of having illegitimate votes counted. “We spent a lot of time lining up over 100 congressmen, including some senators. It started out perfectly. At 1 p.m., Gosar and Cruz did exactly what was expected of them,” Navarro told The Daily Beast in 2021. “It was a perfect plan. And it all predicated on peace and calm on Capitol Hill. We didn’t even need any protestors, because we had over 100 congressmen committed to it.” Navarro told the outlet that the last-minute maneuver never had a chance of actually decertifying election results on its own, but that their hope was to delay long enough to increase public pressure on then-Vice President Mike Pence to send electoral votes back to the contested states, so that Republican-controlled legislatures could potentially address the matter. “The political and legal beauty of the strategy was this: by law, both the House of Representatives and the Senate must spend up to two hours of debate per state on each requested challenge. For the six battleground states, that would add up to as much as twenty-four hours of nationally televised hearings across the two chambers of Congress,” he stated in his book. Bannon is the only other Trump aide who has been indicted for defying a subpoena from the January 6 committee. He was convicted in 2022, sentenced to four months in prison, and fined $6,500. Peter Navarro, who served as a trade advisor to former President Donald Trump, has been sentenced to four months in prison for defying a subpoena from the January 6 Committee.
