Former Trump adviser Peter Navarro reports to prison for contempt in Jan. 6 investigation [Video]

Peter Navarro, a former senior aide to President Donald Trump, turned himself in to a Miami jail Tuesday, a day after the Supreme Court declined to delay his prison time while he appeals his conviction for refusing to testify before Congress about his involvement in efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

Speaking to reporters before reporting to a federal prison around 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, the 74-year-old economist claimed that, by incarcerating him, the justice system was dealing a “crippling blow to the constitutional separation of powers and executive privilege.”

Navarro insisted that he was protected from testifying before Congress by executive privilege, an oft-cited but loosely defined legal protection designed to give the president and top White House aides confidentiality as they make tough decisions while governing, without fearing that those private conversations will be publicly scrutinized.

Before entering the jail, Navarro insisted he had done nothing wrong by …