Key Points

• President-elect Donald Trump announced that Peter Navarro will serve as “Senior Advisor for Trade and Manufacturing” in his next term in the White House.

• Navarro was previously one of Trump’s top trade advisers during his first term.

• Navarro served approximately four months in federal prison for defying a congressional subpoena from the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot.

President-elect Donald Trump announced Wednesday that Peter Navarro will serve as “Senior Advisor for Trade and Manufacturing” in his next term in the White House.

Navarro, 75, will be tasked with helping “successfully promote and communicate Trump’s agendas on Manufacturing, Tariffs, and Trade,” Trump wrote in a pair of posts on Truth Social that revealed the pick.

Navarro was previously a top trade adviser to Trump during his first term.

The selection came less than five months after Navarro’s release from prison.

He served a roughly four-month sentence at a federal facility in Miami for defying a congressional subpoena from the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. He was found guilty of two counts of contempt of Congress.

Hours after his release on July 17, Navarro spoke at the Republican National Convention.

In Wednesday’s posts, Trump said Navarro “was treated horribly by the Deep State, or whatever you want to call it.”

Trump also praised Navarro as a “tenacious” defender of “my two sacred rules: Buy American, Hire American.”

Navarro has been a staunch defender of Trump’s protectionist views, echoing his support for tariffs and his wariness of trade deals backed by so-called globalists.

After Trump lost the 2020 election to President Joe Biden, Navarro spread debunked claims that widespread voter fraud resulted in Trump losing the race.