Peter Navarro, disgraced economist and de facto spokesman for Donald Trump’s COVID “response” team in 2020, will return in the forthcoming administration as trade adviser.
Navarro was a bit of an “all access worker bee” during Trump’s first administration, in which he famous claimed, without evidence, that rampant voter fraud marred the 2020 election. That claim was widely debunked.
Navarro also did a bit of “freelance presidenting” of his own: after Trump failed to act quickly enough for his liking, Navarro awarded “$765 million loan to Eastman Kodak for the production of generic drugs” even though the company had no past experience doing that. He awarded a number of other similar, unilateral contracts to equally unqualified companies.
In making the Navarro announcement on Truth Social, Trump said the appointment “leverages Peter’s broad range of White House experience, while harnessing his extensive Policy analytic and Media skills.”
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You guys, I couldn’t even get through that last section without cracking up. Actually, Donny is half-right: Navarro was a darling of corporate-media shows anchored by Andrea Mitchell and Ari Melber on MSNBC. As a result, Navarro’s relentless rehab by that so-called “liberal media” (which gave him a veneer of credibility) is one factor that paved the way for this cartoonishly corrupt appointment to happen in the first place.
Pete Navarro is, allegedly, an “economic adviser,” but for whatever reason, during 2020’s COVID outbreak, Trump decided Pete was his choice to fan out across all networks to comment about a pandemic and their “response” to it. Navarro is neither epidemiologist nor virologist but that didn’t stop clicks- and eyeball-seeking media from taking the bait. And, to be clear, media never really stopped platforming him, with a live-hit on MSNBC as recently as this past October.
Dumb mobsters love repeating failed ops, which is why Navarro (convicted by a federal judge in D.C. for 2 counts of contempt) is back for more—among a “parade of horribles” with myriad indiscretions and past violations of federal and state law.
