Donald Trump Jr. visits his father’s former assistant Peter Navarro in Florida federal prison… days after the Supreme Court rejected his bid for parole

Don Trump Jr. next week visited Peter Navarro, his father’s former economic adviser, in federal prison in Miami.

Navarro was convicted in September of two counts of contempt of Congress for refusing to testify before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Former President Donald Trump’s eldest son told DailyMail.com he wanted to show his support for Navarro, whom he called “a good man” who was “wrongfully convicted.”

“Peter was preyed upon by the same corrupt system that my father is trying to unearth and that’s why I felt it was important to show my support for him. He is a good man who was wrongfully convicted,” Trump Jr. said in a statement.

“Even though I had knee surgery a few days ago, I wanted to let Peter know that my entire family is praying for him and will always have his back,” he added.

The visit comes just a few weeks after the Supreme Court rejected Navarro’s bid for release while he appeals and as Donald Trump sits in a New York courtroom awaiting his fate in a hush-money case.

Navarro, 74, reported to the Miami Federal Correctional Institution in March to begin a four-month prison sentence for contempt of Congress.

He began his stint behind bars after Chief Justice John Roberts rejected his eleventh-hour bid to remain free.

Now the United States’ highest court has rejected a new bid to be released from the 80-person dormitory for elderly prisoners.

His request to Judge Neil Gorsuch was referred to the full court, which subsequently denied it.

Navarro was found guilty last year of two counts of criminal contempt of Congress after he defied a subpoena to testify before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

He was sentenced to four months and fined $9,500, but appealed almost immediately.

Donald Trump’s former top trade adviser Peter Navarro will remain in federal prison after the Supreme Court rejected his bid for release while he appeals

Peter Navarro was a trade advisor during Donald Trump’s presidency

Navarro argues that he was bound by executive privilege when he ignored the subpoena.

But the main issue the judge mentioned in court was that there was no evidence it had ever been invoked.

One of his bids was also rejected by a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals in Washington DC

They concluded that he was unlikely to get a new trial or have his conviction overturned.

Navarro served as a trade adviser during Trump’s presidency and is the first senior member of his administration to be jailed in connection with efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.

Before handing himself over to the prison guards, he… told reporters gathered in a parking lot across the street that he would serve his time “with pride.”

“When I walk into that prison today,” he said, “the legal system as it stands today will have dealt a crippling blow to the constitutional separation of powers and executive privilege.”

After Trump’s defeat to Joe Biden, Navarro emerged as an outspoken proponent of conspiracy theories that the election was stolen.

He compiled dossiers to support the claims with titles such as ‘The Art of Stealing’ and ‘The Immaculate Deception’.

Navarro, 74, reported to the Miami Federal Correctional Institution in March to begin a four-month prison sentence for contempt of Congress

Before handing himself over to prison guards in March, Navarro told reporters gathered in a parking lot across the street that he would serve his time “with pride.”

Steve Bannon, a longtime adviser to the former president, also faces jail time for defying a House committee subpoena.

Bannon was sentenced to four months in prison by U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols in 2022 after a jury convicted him of two counts of contempt of Congress.

But Nichols, a Trump appointee, agreed to delay the prison sentence while Bannon appealed the decision.

Bannon, like Navarro, argued that he was protected by immunity and executive privilege.

Last week, an appeals court upheld Banno’s conviction, paving the way for a prison sentence. Bannon can still appeal to the Supreme Court.

Bannon and Navarro worked together on a strategy they called the “Green Bay Sweep,” a plan to orchestrate objections by members of Congress to electoral votes from states that Biden won in 2020, slowing the process and buying time for Republican Party state legislators to intervene and elect pro-Trump voters.