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Donald Trump has nominated Peter Navarro, a former aide who was imprisoned for contempt of Congress over the January 6 storming of the Capitol, to be a senior White Home financial adviser.
On his social media platform Reality Social, the President-elect announced that he would make Navarro his senior counsellor for commerce and manufacturing to assist “actually Make American Manufacturing Nice Once more”.
Navarro, a distinguished China hawk, was a key White Home adviser in Washington’s commerce confrontations with Beijing throughout Trump’s first presidency.
Over that interval the US moved away from hanging new commerce offers to broaden enterprise overseas and as an alternative targeted on measures designed to reshore manufacturing and shield American employees.
“Throughout my First Time period, few have been more practical or tenacious than Peter in implementing my two sacred guidelines, Purchase American, Rent American,” Trump wrote on Wednesday.
“He helped me renegotiate unfair Commerce Offers like Nafta and the Korea-US Free Commerce Settlement (KORUS), and moved each certainly one of my Tariff and Commerce actions FAST….”
Trump mentioned that Navarro’s mission in his new put up “can be to assist efficiently advance and talk the Trump Manufacturing, Tariff, and Commerce Agendas”.
Navarro spent 4 months in a federal jail in Miami after being convicted for refusing to adjust to a subpoena from a congressional committee probing the January 6 2021 assault on the US Capitol.
In the course of the 2023 trial, prosecutors mentioned Navarro “selected allegiance” to Trump over complying with the subpoena from lawmakers. Navarro’s attorneys argued the state had not confirmed the commerce adviser “wilfully” ignored the subpoena.
Even after Biden received within the 2020 presidential election, Navarro remained a loyal public defender of Trump as he continued to assert that the outcomes of the vote had been rigged and victory stolen from him.
On Wednesday, Trump wrote that Navarro had been “horribly handled by the Deep State, or no matter else you wish to name it”.
