[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 78 (Monday, May 6, 2024)]
[House]
[Page H2862]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           POLITICAL PRISONER

  (Mr. GAETZ asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GAETZ. Mr. Speaker, I rise to alert this House of the actions of 
the Federal Bureau of Prisons, which seem to be vindicating the claim 
made by Peter Navarro that he is being held as a political prisoner.
  I have been trying for 5 weeks to be able to interview Mr. Navarro. 
There are provisions that ought to allow this, and I was informed 
directly by Director Peters, who runs the bureau, that that request 
would be denied.
  The reason it is being denied is because Peter Navarro is too 
notorious to be interviewed by a Member of Congress.
  John Gotti was interviewed when he was in prison. The QAnon Shaman 
was interviewed in prison. Director Peters herself brought NBC News 
through prisons to showcase the work of corrections that is being done.
  I think there is something else afoot here. Mr. Navarro, I am being 
told, is not being allowed to access his attorney, and it is because it 
is shameful what has been done to Peter Navarro based on a sham January 
6 committee and a sham indictment and a sham conviction that we ought 
to work to remediate immediately upon President Trump's rightful and 
righteous return to office.

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