{"id":2298476,"date":"2024-07-17T21:57:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T01:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-felons-welcomed-at-republican-national-convention-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-07-17T21:58:19","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T01:58:19","slug":"republican-national-convention-welcomes-former-felons-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-national-convention-welcomes-former-felons-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican National Convention welcomes former felons &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frepublican-national-convention-welcomes-former-felons-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2298476&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>On the third day of the Republican National Convention, three \u200cconvicted felons were featured, including former President Donald Trump, former Trump campaign \u2062Chairman Paul Manafort, \u2063and former \u200cTrump administration official Peter Navarro. Navarro, who \u200cwas released from prison \u200bthat morning, spoke at the convention and declared, &#8220;I went to prison so\u200c you \u200bwon\u2019t\u2064 have to. I am your wake-up \u200bcall.&#8221;\u2063 This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doomsday-artificial-intelligence-schumer-and-congress-study-existential-risks\/\" title=\"Schumer and Congress analyze AI&#039;s &#039;Doomsday&#039; dangers\">event \u2062highlighted<\/a> \u2064the presence of individuals with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-slams-biden-admin-sweeping-immigration-reform\/\" title=\"GOP slams Biden admin. sweeping immigration reform\">criminal backgrounds<\/a> in political settings.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Former felons get big stage at Republican National Convention<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1705914\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>MILWAUKEE &mdash;<\/strong>&nbsp;Not one but three convicted felons were featured on the third day of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/republican-national-convention\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Republican National Convention\">Republican National Convention<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The most famous, former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Donald Trump\">Donald Trump<\/a>, is there accepting his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-arizona-state-rep-issues-call-to-withhold-states-electoral-college-votes-to-joe-biden-due-to-significant-evidence-of-fraud\/\" title=\"BREAKING: Arizona State Rep Issues Call to Withhold State&#039;s Electoral College Votes to Joe Biden Due to Significant Evidence of Fraud\">party&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s nomination as he looks to regain the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"White House\">White House<\/a>. Former Trump campaign Chairman Paul Manafort was <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/costareports\/status\/1813699666028171662\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"spotted\">spotted<\/a> on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-southern-baptists-nominate-tom-ascol-voddie-baucham-to-leadership-to-combat-woke-drift-in-largest-protestant-denomination\/\" title=\"EXCLUSIVE: Southern Baptists Nominate Tom Ascol, Voddie Baucham To Leadership To Combat Woke Drift In Largest Protestant Denomination\">convention floor<\/a>, and former Trump administration official Peter Navarro was given a prime speaking spot Wednesday night after getting released from prison Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I went to prison so you <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-continuous-media-covid-fear-mongering-may-backfire-and-diminish-democrat-voter-turnout\/\" title=\"The Continuous Media COVID Fear Mongering May BACKFIRE and Diminish Democrat Voter Turnout\">won&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t have to,&rdquo; Navarro said to a ravenous crowd. &ldquo;I am your wake-up call.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Peter Navarro, hours after being released from prison for a contempt of Congress conviction, tells a roaring RNC crowd he &#8220;went to prison so you won&#8217;t have to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KBhJsE1ThN\">https:\/\/t.co\/KBhJsE1ThN<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PeterNavarro?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PeterNavarro<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RNC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RNC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/prison?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#prison<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ContemptOfCongress?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ContemptOfCongress<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DonaldTrump?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DonaldTrump<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Elections2024?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Elections2024<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/government?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#government<\/a>&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ad0yeFbBDA\">pic.twitter.com\/ad0yeFbBDA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dcexaminer\/status\/1813739218503622783?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 18, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Navarro, who woke up in the morning inside a Miami correctional facility, was given a standing ovation that lasted so long he briefly had to delay starting his speech. The enthusiasm never died down throughout his remarks.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They demanded that I break the law because they have no respect for it,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I refused.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Also spotted by the RNC earlier this week was Rudy Giuliani, who took a fall while walking on the convention floor. Giuliani, Trump&rsquo;s former lawyer, is a co-defendant in the Fulton County, Georgia, election interference case and also indicted in Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>Navarro, an economic adviser in the Trump White House, was convicted on two counts of contempt of Congress after refusing to turn over documents to the Jan. 6 committee and declining to testify to the committee. He described those requests as asking him to violate executive privilege, repeating the &ldquo;I refused&rdquo; theme.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Democrats say the embrace of officials with criminal records undermines the traditional Republican pledge to instill law and order. Delegates at the convention had no apparent qualms about embracing Navarro, who brought up his fiancee onstage and later kissed her in front of the audience.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m Peter Navarro,&rdquo; he said to cheers. &ldquo;I went to prison so you won&rsquo;t have to.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1705914\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1705914\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former felons were prominently featured at the Republican National Convention, including former President Donald Trump, former Trump campaign Chairman Paul Manafort, and former Trump administration official Peter Navarro. Navarro, who had just been released from prison for contempt of Congress, received a standing ovation and delivered a speech emphasizing his refusal to break the law. Despite criticism from Democrats, convention delegates showed support for Navarro, who declared, &#8220;I went to prison so you won&#8217;t have to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2635,"featured_media":2298477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Peter-Navarro-RNC.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[35402,5894,34812,6915,32076],"class_list":["post-2298476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-former-felons","tag-politics","tag-republican-national-convention","tag-rnc","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Peter-Navarro-RNC.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2635"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2298476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2298477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2298476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2298476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2298476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}