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‘They Can Come for You’: Peter Navarro’s Speech at the RNC Was Anything but ‘Unity’

The former Trump official, who arrived at the RNC having just been released from prison, attacked Democrats for his time in a Florida jail.

Peter Navarro speaking at the 2024 RNC.
“Their government will put some of us, like me and Steve Bannon, in prison and control the rest of us,” the former Trump official told the convention crowd. Paul Sancya/AP

Peter Navarro’s speech on the third night of the Republican National Convention immediately cleared up one thing: Anger is overtaking unity.

Navarro, who served as former President Donald Trump’s director of the U.S. Office of Trade and Manufacturing, joined the convention just hours after being released from prison, drawing sustained and fervent applause from the crowd. He’d been sentenced to four months after being held in contempt of Congress for refusing to honor a subpoena for records related to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

He began his speech seething with anger for what he described as being “locked up for disagreeing with the government.”