The president-elect of the United States, Donald Trump, has announced that he will name Peter Navarro as his new trade advisor, an ally who was already part of his first Administration and who spent four months in jail this year for not complying with a congressional subpoena regarding the assault on the Capitol in January 2021.
Navarro, who after leaving prison attended as a speaker at the Republican National Convention that proclaimed Trump as the electoral candidate, thus remains within the magnate’s inner circle in view of the mandate that the Republican will begin on January 20.
Trump has defended in a statement that Navarro did a “magnificent” job during the first presidential term, where he defended “two sacred rules: buy American, hire American.” Now, he hopes that he will do “even better” to “protect workers,” after a few years in which he has been “treated horribly by the Deep State.”
Navarro himself attributed his conviction to politically motivated judicial persecution, in line with the “witch hunt” theory that Trump has always promoted in an attempt to undermine the legitimacy of the numerous cases he has pending in the courts.
