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Peter Navarro

Not to be confused with Peter Navarre or Pedro Navarro.

Peter Navarro
Navarro smiling, seated in front of an American flag
Navarro in 2018
Director of the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy
In office
April 29, 2017 – January 20, 2021
PresidentDonald Trump
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byPosition abolished
Director of the National Trade Council
In office
January 20, 2017 – April 29, 2017
PresidentDonald Trump
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byPosition abolished
Personal details
Born
Peter Kent Navarro

(1949-07-15) July 15, 1949 (age 74)
Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Political partyRepublican (1989–1991, 2018–present)
Other political
affiliations		Democratic (before 1986, 1994–2018)
Independent (1986–1989, 1991–1994)
Spouse
Leslie Lebon
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(m. 2001; div. 2020)​
EducationTufts University (BA)
Harvard University (MPA, PhD)
Criminal statusIn prison
Conviction(s)2× contempt of Congress (2023)
Criminal penalty4 months in prison and $9,500 fine
Imprisoned atFederal Correctional Institution, Miami, 2024

Peter Kent Navarro (born July 15, 1949) is an American economist who served in the Trump administration, first as Deputy Assistant to the President and director of the short-lived White House National Trade Council, then as Assistant to the President, Director of Trade and Manufacturing Policy in the new Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy; he was also named the national Defense Production Act policy coordinator.[1][2] He is a professor emeritus of economics and public policy at the Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine, and the author of Death by China, among other publications.[3] Navarro ran unsuccessfully for office in San Diego, California, five times.[4] Navarro, who sought to overturn the 2020 presidential election,[5] is the only former White House official ever imprisoned on a contempt-of-Congress conviction.[6]

Navarro's views on trade are significantly outside the mainstream of economic thought, and are widely considered fringe by other economists.[7][8][9][10][11] A strong proponent of reducing U.S. trade deficits, Navarro is well known as a critic of Germany and China, and has accused both nations of currency manipulation.[12] He has called for increasing the size of the American manufacturing sector, setting high tariffs, and "repatriating global supply chains."[13] He is also a vocal opponent of multilateral free trade agreements such as NAFTA[14] and the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement.[15]

As a Trump administration official, Navarro encouraged President Donald Trump to implement trade-protectionist policies.[16][17][18][19] Navarro said his role in the administration is to "provide the underlying analytics that confirm [Trump's] intuition [on trade]. And his intuition is always right in these matters."[9] In 2018, as the Trump administration was implementing such policies, Navarro argued that no country would retaliate against U.S. tariffs "for the simple reason that we are the most lucrative and biggest market in the world". Shortly after the implementation of the tariffs, other countries did implement retaliatory tariffs against the United States, leading to trade wars.[20][21]

During his final year in the Trump administration, Navarro was involved in the administration's COVID-19 response.[22] Early on, he issued private warnings within the administration about the threat posed by the virus, but downplayed the risks in public.[23] He publicly clashed with Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, as Navarro advocated hydroxychloroquine as a treatment of COVID-19 and condemned various public health measures to stop the spread of the virus.[24][25]

After Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election and Donald Trump refused to concede, Navarro advanced conspiracy theories of election fraud and in February 2022 was subpoenaed twice by Congress. One subpoena required him to produce documents to the House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack; the other subpoena required him to give testimony to the committee.[26] Navarro refused to comply, effectively ignoring both subpoenas, and was referred to the Justice Department. On June 2, 2022, a grand jury indicted him on two counts of contempt of Congress.[27] On September 7, 2023, he was convicted on both counts,[28] and on January 25, 2024, he was sentenced to four months in jail and fined $9,500.[29] He is serving his sentence at Miami Federal Corrections Institute and is due for release on July 17, 2024.[30]

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  8. ^ "The wonkless White House". The Economist. February 2017. Archived from the original on October 21, 2017. Mr Navarro's views on trade are well outside the mainstream, and he is not a big hitter in academic circles.
  9. ^ a b Coy, Peter (March 8, 2018). "After Defeating Cohn, Trump's Trade Warrior Is on the Rise Again". Bloomberg. Archived from the original on March 27, 2019. Navarro has come a long way from his roots as a mainstream economist.
  10. ^ Landler, Mark (November 25, 2018). "The Road to Confrontation (Published 2018)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved January 16, 2021.
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  22. ^ McSwane, J. David (March 31, 2021). "Documents Show Trump Officials Skirted Rules to Reward Politically Connected and Untested Firms With Huge Pandemic Contracts". ProPublica. Retrieved December 12, 2023.
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  27. ^ Perez, Evan; Reid, Paula; Sneed, Tierney (June 3, 2022). "Grand jury indicts former Trump adviser Peter Navarro for two misdemeanor counts of contempt of Congress". CNN.
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  29. ^ Cole, Devan; Lybrand, Holmes (January 25, 2024). "Former Trump adviser Peter Navarro sentenced to 4 months in jail for defying congressional subpoena". CNN. Retrieved January 25, 2024.
  30. ^ "Inmate Locator". Federal Bureau of Prisons.

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