‘Food Was Moldy, The Conditions Are Terrible’: MSNBC Reporter Warns Peter Navarro’s Florida Prison Is No ‘Country Club’

MSNBC’s Ken Dilanian previewed some of what Peter Navarro’s four month stay in prison will be like, and there wasn’t much positive in the analysis.

The justice and intelligence correspondent joined Andrea Mitchell on Tuesday, shortly before Navarro was ordered to report to the FCI Miami prison where he will serve four months for refusing to comply with a subpoena from the House subcommittee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

Navarro spoke to reporters outside the prison and maintained his innocence, citing executive privilege when explaining why he was not legally obligated to testify. Fox News and other outlets carrying Navarro’s talk immediately fact checked his claims.

“He has obviously been convicted, and there was no evidence that did, that would have excluded him, per executive privilege, from testifying,” Fox’s Sandra Smith said.

Dilanian called the case “bizarre.”

“It’s really bizarre. All he had to do was show up to Congress, he could’ve asserted his Fifth Amendment rights, refused to answer questions. He thought he was a martyr to principle and now he’s going to serve time in prison,” he said.

The reporter cited past reporting on Florida prisons to insist that Navarro’s stay will not be a “country club,” despite the palm trees and Miami setting of his home for the next four months.

“[It] looks like a country club, but actually federal prisons are not country clubs. We’ve reported on inspector general reports of prisons in Florida, minimum security prisons where the food was moldy, the conditions are terrible, so no one should be looking forward to spending time [there],” he said.

The reporter reacted to a sunny photo of the outside of the prison and added, “As inviting as that looks, it’s not a good place.”

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