Jailed former Trump aide Peter Navarro gets more bad news as Supreme Court rejects his bid to be released from prison

Donald Trump's former top trade advisor Peter Navarro will have to remain in federal prison after the Supreme Court rejected his bid for release while he appeals.

The 74-year-old reported to the Miami Federal Correctional Institution in March to begin a four-month sentence for contempt of Congress.

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

Now the highest court in the United States has knocked down another bid to be released from the 80-man dormitory for older inmates.

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

His request to Justice Neil Gorsuch was referred to the whole court, who then denied it.

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

He was sentenced to four month and given a $9,500 fine, but almost immediately appealed. 

Navarro has argued that he was bound by executive privileged when he ignored the subpoena.

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

One of his bids was also rejected by a three-judge U.S. Court of Appeals panel in Washington D.C.

They concluded that it was unlikely he could get a new trial or reverse is conviction.

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

Before he handed himself over to the prison guards, he told reporters gathered in a parking lot across the street that he would serve his time 'proudly.'

The 74-year-old reported to the Miami Federal Correctional Institution in March to begin a four-month sentence for contempt of Congress 

Now the highest court in the United States has knocked down another bid to be released from the 80-man dormitory for older inmates

Before he handed himself over to the prison guards in March, Navarro told reporters gathered in a parking lot across the street that he would serve his time 'proudly'

Navarro was President Donald Trump's trade adviser. They are seen together in 2020 examining an all-electric pick-up truck on the south lawn of the White House

'When I walk in that prison today,' he said, 'the justice system such as it is will have done a crippling blow to the constitutional separation of powers and executive privilege.'

The setting, outside a strip mall beside a Shell gas station, made a mundane backdrop for such a defiant speech and a man who as White House trade adviser was once a regular in the Oval Office. 

'I will walk proudly in there to do my time,' he said. 'I will gather strength from this: Donald John Trump is the nominee.'

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

He put together dossiers to back up the claims with titles such as 'The Art of the Steal,' and 'The Immaculate Deception.'