Ex-Trump adviser Peter Navarro loses last appeal to stay out of jail

Donald Trump former adviser Peter Navarro is out of tries to keep himself out of jail.

On Thursday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued an order denying Navarro's request to remain free while he appeals his conviction for contempt of Congress — a decision that will force him to report to jail next Tuesday to begin serving his four-month sentence.

The decision was itself an appeal of a district court ruling from Judge Amit Mehta in February rejecting Navarro's arguments.

Navarro, who advised the former president on trade, was the second Trump figure, after strategist Steve Bannon, to be convicted of contempt of Congress for stonewalling the House Select Committee on January 6, which sought his testimony for information about Trump allies' involvement in the attack on the U.S. Capitol.

He plans to appeal his conviction, but will now have to do so from jail.

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This is not the only legal problem Navarro has faced. In February, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly threatened to hold Navarro in contempt of court unless he returned presidential records he was holding.

All of this comes as Trump himself faces multiple criminal cases for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, both in D.C. and Georgia, although both cases have hit various complications that have made it unclear whether they can be heard ahead of the 2024 election.