Peter Navarro, former director of the US Office of Trade and Manufacturing, gestures as he speaks on Day 3 of the Republican National Convention (RNC) at Fiserve Forum on July 17, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US.
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President-Elect Donald Trump Peter Navarro will serve as “senior adviser on trade and manufacturing” during his next White House term, it was announced Wednesday.
Navarro, 75, will be tasked with helping “successfully advance and communicate the Trump manufacturing, tariff and trade agendas,” Trump wrote in the pair. Truth is social posts Disclosure of choice.
Navarro was previously a top trade aide during Trump’s first term.
Navarro’s selection came five months later released from prison.
He served roughly four months in a federal facility in Miami for defying a congressional subpoena from the House Select Committee investigating the January 6, 2021 Capitol riots. They are the criminal On two counts Congress contempt.
Hours after his release on July 17, Navarro spoke out Republican National Convention.
In Wednesday’s posts, Trump said Navarro was “treated horribly by the deep state, or whatever you want to call it.”
Trump praised Navarro as a “stalwart” advocate for “my two sacred precepts: Buy American, Hire American.”
Navarro has been a staunch defender of Trump’s protectionist views, echoing them Support for Tariffs And wary of trade agreements supported by so-called globalists.
After Trump lost the 2020 election for president Joe BidenNavarro spread Denied Claims Widespread voter fraud stole the race from Trump.
