Peter Navarro, former director of the U.S. Office of Trade and Manufacturing, speaks on the third day of the Republican National Convention (RNC) at the Feather Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, July 17, 2024 Made a gesture.
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President-elect Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that Peter Navarro will serve as “senior adviser for trade and manufacturing” during the next White House term.
Trump wrote in two statements that Navarro, 75, would be responsible for helping “successfully advance and communicate Trump’s manufacturing, tariff and trade agenda.” truth society post Reveal picks.
Navarro previously served as Trump’s top trade aide during his first term.
The choice came less than five months after Navarro was elected. get out of jail.
He is serving about four months in a federal prison in Miami for defying a congressional subpoena issued by a House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol. He was convicted on two counts of contempt of Congress.
Hours after his release on July 17, Navarro republican national convention.
Trump said in Wednesday’s post that Navarro “was treated horribly by the deep state, or whatever you want to call it.”
Trump also praised Navarro as a “tenacious” advocate of “my two sacred rules, buy American, hire American.”
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