Trump Has Now Tapped Multiple Convicted Criminals to Join Admin.

President-elect Donald Trump has tapped fellow convicted criminal Peter Navarro to serve as his Senior Counselor for Trade and Manufacturing. 

“I am pleased to announce that Peter Navarro, a man who was treated horribly by the Deep State, or whatever else you would like to call it, will serve as my Senior Counselor for Trade and Manufacturing,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, highlighting that in his first term Navarro helped him “renegotiate unfair Trade Deals like NAFTA and the Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (KORUS), and moved every one of my Tariff and Trade actions FAST.” 

In a separate post, Trump wrote that “the Senior Counselor position leverages Peter’s broad range of White House experience, while harnessing his extensive Policy analytic and Media skills.” Navarro is a frequent guest on Fox News, Trump’s favorite propaganda channel.  “His mission will be to help successfully advance and communicate the Trump Manufacturing, Tariff, and Trade Agendas.” 

Navarro would become the second convicted criminal tapped to serve in Trump’s incoming administration. On Tuesday, the president-elect announced that he had selected Charles Kusher — the father of his son-in-law Jared Kushner — to serve as U.S. Ambassador to France. In 2005, Kushner Sr. was convicted of illegal campaign contributions, tax evasion, and witness tampering and sentenced to two years in prison. A generous donor to Trump’s 2016 campaign, he was pardoned by Trump in 2020. 

In January, Navarro was sentenced to four months in prison after being convicted on charges of contempt of Congress when he flouted two congressional subpoenas for testimony and documents related to Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. 

Navarro called the case against him an act of “terrorism,” and likened his arrest to what happens in “Stalinist Russia.”

As previously reported by Rolling Stone, Trump told close advisers earlier this year that he planned to reward Navarro for taking the fall and ending up in jail instead of turning “rat.” 

“We’re going to take care of him,” a source recounted Trump saying of the man he refers to privately as “my Peter.” 

Trump has also reportedly floated granting Navarro federal clemency once he won the White House and returned to power. One Republican source told Rolling Stone that the president-elect once joked that even if they waterboarded Navarro, he would never “rat on him.”

Now that Navarro has been released, Trump is making good on his promises, installing yet another loyalist into the highest ranks of his administration.