Trump Says Peter Navar­ro Will Join His Sec­ond Admin­is­tra­tion

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Trump Says Peter Navarro Will Join His Second Administration

Pres­i­dent-elect Don­ald Trump announced Wednes­day that Peter Navar­ro will be rejoin­ing his admin­is­tra­tion as his senior coun­selor for Trade and Man­u­fac­tur­ing.

Navar­ro was a for­mer trade advis­er to Trump in his first admin­is­tra­tion. He pre­vi­ous­ly served four months in fed­er­al prison after he failed to com­ply with a Jan. 6 Com­mit­tee sub­poe­na, instead invok­ing exec­u­tive priv­i­lege to decline to tes­ti­fy and turn over doc­u­ments to the com­mit­tee. Trump wrote Wednes­day in a Truth Social post that Navar­ro has been treat­ed “hor­ri­bly by the Deep State” and will help advance his agen­da in a sec­ond admin­is­tra­tion.

“The Senior Coun­selor posi­tion lever­ages Peter’s broad range of White House expe­ri­ence, while har­ness­ing his exten­sive Pol­i­cy ana­lyt­ic and Media skills. His mis­sion will be to help suc­cess­ful­ly advance and com­mu­ni­cate the Trump Man­u­fac­tur­ing, Tar­iff, and Trade Agen­das,” Trump wrote.

“Peter is not just a superb, Har­vard-trained Econ­o­mist, he is a not­ed author of more than a dozen best­selling books on strate­gic busi­ness man­age­ment and unfair Trade. He did a superb job for the Amer­i­can Peo­ple in my First Term. Peter will do even bet­ter as Senior Coun­selor to pro­tect Amer­i­can Work­ers, and tru­ly Make Amer­i­can Man­u­fac­tur­ing Great Again,” he con­tin­ued.

Ahead of serv­ing time in prison in the sum­mer of 2024, Navar­ro was arrest­ed by FBI agents in June 2022 at Ronald Rea­gan Nation­al Air­port and charged in the U.S. Dis­trict Court of Wash­ing­ton, D.C. The Trump offi­cial pre­vi­ous­ly told the Dai­ly Caller that his time in prison was “dan­ger­ous” and not like the “Club Fed” expe­ri­ence oth­ers had described it to be.

Navar­ro pre­vi­ous­ly told the Dai­ly Caller that his time in prison has not been like the “Club Fed” that many are describ­ing it to be.

Trump’s newest senior coun­selor for Trade and Man­u­fac­tur­ing was able to leave prison in July ahead of the RNC con­ven­tion and make an appear­ance where he was greet­ed with a stand­ing ova­tion.

“This morn­ing, I did walk out of fed­er­al prison. If they can come for me, if they can come for Don­ald Trump, be care­ful. They will come for you,” Navar­ro said in his speech. “Here’s how I got in prison. The leg­isla­tive branch came for me first. Your favorite Demo­c­rat Nan­cy Pelosi cre­at­ed your favorite com­mit­tee, the sham Jan­u­ary 6th com­mit­tee which demand­ed that I … vio­late exec­u­tive priv­i­lege. What did I do? I refused.”

“I went to prison so you won’t have to. I am your wake up call,” he added.