US president-elect Donald Trump said on Wednesday he had picked Peter Navarro to be senior counsellor for trade and manufacturing.
Navarro served as head of a newly created position – director of the White House National Trade Council – in the first Trump administration.
“During my First Term, few were more effective or tenacious than Peter in enforcing my two sacred rules, Buy American, Hire American,” Trump said in a Truth Social post announcing the nomination.
Trump wrote that the position “leverages Peter’s broad range of White House experience, while harnessing his extensive Policy analytic and Media skills”.
Navarro was sentenced in January to four months in prison after being found guilty of two misdemeanour counts of contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena from a committee probing the January 6, 2021 US Capitol attack by Trump supporters.
He described his conviction as the “partisan weaponisation of the judicial system”.
