Trump Names Navar­ro As Trade Advi­sor

Pres­i­dent-elect Don­ald Trump has select­ed Peter Navar­ro to be his senior coun­selor for trade and man­u­fac­tur­ing. 

Navar­ro has been a crit­ic of trade with Chi­na through­out his career as an econ­o­mist and aca­d­e­m­ic, writ­ing sev­er­al books warn­ing about the dan­gers of trade with Chi­na. Dur­ing the first Trump admin­is­tra­tion, Navar­ro served as the direc­tor of the White House Nation­al Trade Coun­cil, play­ing an impor­tant role in the nego­ti­a­tion of the USMCA Trade agree­ment.

After the first Trump admin­is­tra­tion, Navar­ro was con­vict­ed of con­tempt of Con­gress for refus­ing to com­ply with a sub­poe­na of the Jan­u­ary 6 Com­mit­tee, spend­ing four months in fed­er­al prison. 

The appoint­ment rep­re­sents a fur­ther turn of the Rota For­tu­nae in Navarro’s favor. In July, the Har­vard-trained econ­o­mist went from fed­er­al prison to receiv­ing a minute-long stand­ing ova­tion at the RNC. “This morn­ing I did walk out of a fed­er­al prison in Mia­mi,” Navar­ro stat­ed at the time, adding, “Joe Biden and his Depart­ment of Injus­tice put me there.”

Navarro’s role will not require sen­ate con­fir­ma­tion.

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