In new prison interview, former Trump official Peter Navarro predicts ‘mass deportations’ during Trump’s second term

Donald Trump’s incarcerated former trade adviser warned during a prison interview that there would be “mass deportations” if his former boss returns to the White House.

Peter Navarro, 74, is serving a four-month sentence at FCI Maximum Security Prison in Miami, Florida, after being convicted of two counts of contempt of court.

He was impeached in 2022 after he refused to testify or provide documentary evidence at the request of a House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

In a new interview Navarro gave via email from behind bars, Semaphorehe offered his predictions for the “unfinished business” that will be back on the table if Trump regains the presidency in November.

He told the outlet that Trump would want to “bring the supply chains and manufacturing of our private sector back to American soil” and said the country was “dangerously vulnerable” to foreign coercion in industries including defense, technology and pharmaceuticals.

“Trump will also quickly close the border and begin mass deportations,” he said in a published excerpt from an email exchange with Semafor.

“(President Joe Biden) has brought a wave of crime and terrorism along with an uneducated mass that is driving down the wages of black, brown and working-class Americans. Black and Latino Americans, especially working-class men, are flocking to Trump in droves.”

Navarro surrendered to authorities on March 19 to begin serving his prison sentence, though he petitioned the Supreme Court for his release 15 days later.

The sentence came after he refused to appear before a bipartisan panel to discuss a plot to prevent the certification of the 2020 election results.

Navarro called this plan the “Green Bay Sweep” in his book. In the Time of Trump (2021) but he refused to comply with a subpoena to discuss the issue with the committee, later arguing unsuccessfully that Mr. Trump had invoked professional secrecy regarding his testimony and evidence regarding the failed insurrection.

On September 7 last year, a jury found him guilty of both counts after less than four hours of deliberation during a two-day trial in which the former Trump adviser’s defense attorneys presented no witnesses of their own.

Before entering prison in March, Navarro gave a brief press conference in a parking lot during which he tried to portray himself as a martyr of Democrat-led persecution and, like Trump, baselessly lamented the “partisan weaponization of our judicial system.”

He promised to “walk proudly” into prison and told reporters: “It will give me strength.” Navarro requested to be fired two weeks later.