Peter Navarro, conspiracy crank and former Trump aide, heads to prison

Former senior Trump adviser Peter Navarro is due to report to prison Tuesday, and it couldn't happen to a more deserving person. In September, Navarro was convicted of contempt of Congress after Navarro refused to comply with a subpoena from the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, coup attempt.

In January, he was sentenced to four months in prison, with U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta noting that it took "chutzpah" for Navarro to claim he was taking responsibility for his crime while simultaneously claiming to be the victim of politically motivated prosecution. He was ordered to report to a Miami, Florida, prison by Tuesday, and on March 14, a unanimous panel of judges in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit rejected his bid to delay that prison sentence, ruling Navarro hadn't shown them any reason to believe his appeal was "likely" to be successful. On Monday, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts also rejected Navarro’s latest bid to delay the sentence, signing an order saying he had “no basis to disagree” with the appeals court.

So it's the pokey for Donald Trump's former trade adviser, but Navarro can't plausibly pretend that this comes as a surprise. Anyone who goes to work for the orange man knows there's a chance they'll come out of it wearing an orange jumpsuit.

Trump has apparently been worried about wearing “one of those jumpsuits” himself if he doesn't win the White House and the free get-out-of-jail privileges he believes he can squeeze from it. Seeing photographs of yet another of his closest allies in prison garb won't do much to improve his recent mood.