President Trump Brings Back Peter Navarro for Top Trade Role!

President Trump announced today that he has chosen Peter Navarro for his Senior Counselor for Trade and Manufacturing.

Of course, Peter Navarro served in President Trump’s first administration before being held in contempt of Congress and sent to jail for defying a J6 subpoena.

Check it out:

BREAKING: President Trump has tapped first Trump administration veteran Peter Navarro to serve as Senior Counselor for Trade and Manufacturing.

Congratulation, @RealPNavarro!! pic.twitter.com/E0i9UPgGsK

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) December 4, 2024

BREAKING: President Trump has appointed Peter Navarro to be his top trade advisor. He was jailed by the Gestapo DOJ for refusing to betray Trump.

"The January 6th committee demanded that I betray Donald J. Trump to save my own skin. I REFUSED."
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— George (@BehizyTweets) December 4, 2024

Here’s President Trump’s full Truth Social post making the announcement:

The Wall Street Journal reported:

Donald Trump has chosen Peter Navarro as a senior adviser on trade and manufacturing, installing a pugnacious proponent of the president-elect’s pledge to impose sweeping tariffs on U.S. imports in an influential White House role.

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“His mission will be to help successfully advance and communicate the Trump Manufacturing, Tariff, and Trade Agendas,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, his social-media platform.

Navarro was a trade and manufacturing adviser during Trump’s first term. He often clashed behind the scenes with Trump’s economic advisers as he encouraged Trump to make aggressive trade moves. Trump has long been fond of Navarro, whom he often calls “my Pete” behind the scenes.

The move to bring on Navarro signals that Trump is determined to follow through on his sweeping campaign-trail tariff proposals. It comes after Trump decided not to give Robert Lighthizer, his first-term U.S. trade representative, a senior role in his incoming administration. Lighthizer is widely seen as a key architect of Trump’s trade agenda, and his absence had raised concerns among some of the president-elect’s protectionist allies.

Reuters added:

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Wednesday he had picked Peter Navarro, a fiercely loyal former aide who did jail time related to the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot, to be senior counselor for trade and manufacturing, largely reprising a role he played during Trump’s first administration.

Navarro was sentenced in January to four months in prison after being found guilty of two misdemeanor counts of contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena from a committee probing the attack by Trump supporters.

Trump said in a statement that Navarro’s mission in the new role “will be to help successfully advance and communicate the Trump Manufacturing, Tariff and Trade Agendas.”

The role is similar to one Navarro played from 2017-2021 as director of the White House National Trade Council, where he fiercely defended Trump’s tariffs on $370 billion worth of Chinese imports and national security tariffs on steel and aluminum.

Navarro’s appointment appears to round out Trump’s new trade team. He has nominated Wall Street CEO Howard Lutnick as Commerce secretary with overall trade leadership, including “additional direct responsibility” for the U.S. Trade Representative’s office.