68 Facts About Peter Navarro

Peter Kent Navarro was born on July 15,1949 and is an American political figure who served in the Trump administration as the Assistant to the President, Director of Trade and Manufacturing Policy, and the national Defense Production Act policy coordinator.

Peter Navarro previously served as a Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of the White House National Trade Council, a newly created entity in the White House Office, until it was folded into the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy, a new role established by executive order in April 2017.

Peter Navarro 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.

Peter Navarro publicly clashed with Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, as Navarro touted hydroxychloroquine as a treatment of COVID-19 and condemned various public health measures to stop the spread of the virus.

Peter Navarro refused to comply, asserting executive privilege, and was referred to the Justice Department; a grand jury indicted him on two counts of contempt of Congress on June 2,2022; he pleaded not guilty two weeks later.

Peter Navarro was born on July 15,1949, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Peter Navarro attended Tufts University on an academic scholarship, graduating in 1972 with a Bachelor of Arts degree.

Peter Navarro then spent three years in the US Peace Corps, serving in Thailand.

Peter Navarro earned a Master of Public Administration from Harvard University's John F Kennedy School of Government in 1979, and a PhD in economics from Harvard under the supervision of Richard E Caves in 1986.

Peter Navarro continued on the UC Irvine faculty for more than 20 years and is a professor emeritus.

Peter Navarro has worked on energy issues and the relationship between the United States and Asia.

Peter Navarro has received multiple teaching awards for MBA courses he has taught.

Peter Navarro has done research in the topic of wind energy with Frank Harris, a former student of his.

Peter Navarro has written over a dozen books on various topics in economics and specializing in issues of balance of trade.

Peter Navarro has published peer-reviewed economics research on energy policy, charity, deregulation and the economics of trash collection.

Peter Navarro discusses how China's role in international commerce is creating conflicts with nations around the world over energy, natural resources, the environment, intellectual property, and other issues.

Peter Navarro deplores China's practice of forcing American firms to hand over intellectual property as a condition of access to its market.

In 2012, Peter Navarro directed and produced a documentary film based on his book, Death by China.

From 2011 until 2016, Peter Navarro was a frequent guest on the radio program The John Batchelor Show.

Peter Navarro paid $4,000 in fines and court costs for violating city and state election laws.

Peter Navarro rejoined the Democratic Party in 1994 and remained a Democrat during each of his subsequent political campaigns.

Peter Navarro supported President Barack Obama's phase-out of incandescent light bulbs, the adoption of wind energy, and carbon taxes in order to stop global warming.

In 2016, Peter Navarro served as an economic policy adviser to Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.

Peter Navarro advocated for an isolationist and protectionist American foreign policy.

Peter Navarro was invited to be an adviser after Trump's advisor and son-in-law Jared Kushner saw on Amazon that he co-wrote Death by China.

When told that the Tax Policy Center assessment of Trump's economic plan said it would reduce federal revenues by $6 trillion and reduce economic growth in the long term, Peter Navarro said that the analysis demonstrated "a high degree of analytical and political malfeasance".

In October 2016, along with Wilbur Ross and Andy Puzder, Peter Navarro co-authored an essay titled "Economic Analysis of Donald Trump's Contract with the American Voter".

On December 21,2016, Peter Navarro was selected by President-elect Trump to head a newly created position, as director of the White House National Trade Council.

The United States Office of Special Counsel ruled in December 2020 that Peter Navarro repeatedly violated the Hatch Act by using his official capacity to influence elections in speaking against Trump's opponent Joe Biden during the presidential campaign.

Josh Rogin, writing for The Washington Post, reported that Peter Navarro had used his prior time of lower influence to lead several low-profile policy items, such as working to increase military funding, drafting Executive Order 13806, and leading the effort to solve a dispute between the United States and Qatar over the Open Skies Agreement between the two countries.

In June 2018, Peter Navarro said that there was "a special place in hell" for Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, after Trudeau said that Canada would respond to US tariffs against Canada with retaliatory tariffs.

Trudeau's remarks and Canada's response to these tariffs were already public and well known when Peter Navarro made this comment.

In May 2019, Peter Navarro said that Trump's decision to place tariffs on Mexico unless Mexico stopped illegal immigration to the United States as "a brilliant move".

In September 2019, after Trump tasked him with combatting China's usage of international mail rates to more cheaply ship products into the US, Peter Navarro successfully led a diplomatic effort to the third Extraordinary Congress of the Universal Postal Union, where it agreed member countries could opt-in to self-declare their rates starting in July 2020.

Peter Navarro continued to advocate for trade restrictionist policies even while the administration was trying to reach a compromise in trade negotiations between the two countries.

Peter Navarro worked with the DHS to initiate a crackdown on counterfeited and pirated e-commerce goods from overseas, and he promoted the administration's actions on the matter.

In February 2020, it was reported that Peter Navarro was conducting his own investigation into the identity of the author of an anonymous op-ed in The New York Times criticizing the Trump Administration.

On January 29,2020, Peter Navarro issued a memo warning that novel coronavirus could "evolv[e] into a full-blown pandemic, imperiling the lives of millions of Americans" and that the "risk of a worst-case pandemic scenario should not be overlooked".

On March 27,2020, Trump appointed Peter Navarro to coordinate the federal government's Defense Production Act policy response during the coronavirus pandemic.

Peter Navarro clashed with Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, over whether the administration should promote the use of hydroxychloroquine to treat the virus.

In July 2020, Peter Navarro touted a widely criticized study as showing that hydroxychloroquine was an effective coronavirus treatment; public health experts pointed to limitations with the study and to the fact that multiple randomized controlled trials failed to conclude that hydroxychloroquine was an effective treatment.

In May 2020, Peter Navarro criticized stay-at-home orders, arguing that the COVID-19 lockdowns will kill "many more" people than the coronavirus.

The Washington Post reported in March 2021 that congressional investigators were examining whether Peter Navarro had directed over $1 billion in federal funds for medical supplies to companies of his selection, after his recommendations had been rejected by President Trump.

In December 2020, Peter Navarro published a report alleging widespread election fraud.

Peter Navarro was actually describing the well-known phenomenon of the "blue shift", caused by the fact that mail-in votes in many states cannot be counted on Election Day itself; those votes tend to lean Democratic, so that an Election Night lead by a Republican candidate can turn into a Democratic lead as the later counts come in.

In 2021 Peter Navarro published a book, In Trump Time, in which he describes how he worked with Bannon and others on plans to delay or overturn Congress's formal count of the election results, in part by having Pence reject some Biden elector slates.

Days later, Peter Navarro reiterated false claims that Trump had won the election.

In February 2022, the House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack subpoenaed Peter Navarro to provide testimony.

Peter Navarro said he would not comply, citing a claim of executive privilege made by the former president.

Peter Navarro was arrested at National Airport as he was about to board a plane to Nashville and taken into custody by agents from the US Marshals service.

On March 9,2023, Peter Navarro was ordered to turn them over under the Presidential Records Act.

Peter Navarro has been a staunch critic of trade with China and strong proponent of reducing US trade deficits.

Peter Navarro has attacked Germany, Japan and China for their currency manipulation.

Peter Navarro has called for increasing the size of the American manufacturing sector, setting high tariffs, and repatriating global supply chains.

Peter Navarro was a fierce opponent of the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Peter Navarro changed his positions as he saw "the globalist erosion of the American economy" develop.

Peter Navarro has said that he started to examine China when he noticed that his former students were losing jobs, concluding that China was at fault.

Peter Navarro has said that a large part of China's competitive advantage over the United States stems from unfair trade practices.

Peter Navarro has criticized China for pollution, poor labor standards, government subsidies, producing "contaminated, defective and cancerous" exports, currency manipulation, and theft of US intellectual property.

Peter Navarro has admitted to making up the character, an author surrogate, and quoting him in his books.

Economist Glenn Hubbard, who co-authored Seeds of Destruction with Peter Navarro, has said he was not aware that Vara was fictional, and that he did not approve of Peter Navarro attributing information to a fictional source.

Peter Navarro drew controversy when he accused Germany of using a "grossly undervalued" euro to "exploit" the US and the rest of the European Union.

Peter Navarro has called for the United States to leave the North American Free Trade Agreement, and has tried to convince Trump to initiate a withdrawal.

Irwin said that Peter Navarro had not substantiated his claim with any evidence.

Peter Navarro has said that the United States has "already begun to lose control of [its] food supply chain", which according to NPR, "sounded pretty off-the-wall to a number of economists" who noted that the US is a massive exporter of food.

Peter Navarro is a proponent of the notion that trade deficits are bad in and of themselves, a view which is widely rejected by trade experts and economists.

Peter Navarro thinks that for every dollar we import, our GDP is reduced by a dollar.

The couple lived in Laguna Beach with Lebon's son from a previous marriage while Peter Navarro was a professor at UC Irvine.