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December 5, 2024

Trump Names Ex-Adviser Peter Navarro as Top Trade Official Months After Release from Prison
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Back in the U.S., Donald Trump has named former UC Irvine economist
Peter Navarro as his top trade adviser. Navarro served as a White House
adviser in the first Trump administration before serving four months in
a federal prison earlier this year, after he was convicted of contempt
of Congress for refusing to comply with a subpoena from the House
January 6 committee. Navarro had boasted of working to delay Congress's
count of the 2020 election results to buy time for Trump to reverse Joe
Biden's victory.


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