Fox News pulls the plug on Peter Navarro in final press conference before prison
Fox News cut off Peter Navarro's final press conference on Tuesday before he turned himself in to prison for contempt of Congress.
While speaking to reporters outside a federal prison, Navarro called his four-month incarceration a "little story." The former adviser to Donald Trump was sentenced to prison after he refused to cooperate with the Jan. 6 Committee.
"This is not about me," he insisted. "One of the big stories is about what is really an unprecedented assault on the constitutional separation of powers and the doctrine of executive privilege as a critical tool dating back to George Washington's effective presidential decision-making."
"When I walk in that prison today, the justice system such as it is will have done a crippling blow to the constitutional separation of powers and executive privilege," he continued. "The second and related story has to do with the emergence of lawfare and the partisan weaponization of our justice system, which we have seen come to this country with a vengeance since the coming of Donald John Trump as president."
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"I'm asking you to fact-check everything I say today and write the bigger stories here, which I think are the important ones."
But before reporters could ask Navarro any questions, Fox News cut him off.
"All right," Fox News anchor Sandra Smith chimed in. "He will be reporting to that prison 2 p.m. Eastern Time there in Miami to serve his four-month prison sentence."
"He began by saying, not about me. He said this is about a crippling blow to the justice system," she added. "To fact check there, it is no longer an alleged crime that he'll be serving this four month sentence for. He has obviously been convicted. And there was no evidence that did, that would have excluded him per executive privilege from testifying."