'Absolutely': Trump says he wants to rehire disgraced adviser Peter Navarro
Former President Donald Trump is open to giving a new job to his former trade adviser Peter Navarro in a new administration.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Navarro, who is currently serving a four-month prison sentence for contempt of Congress, told a reporter he has "no regrets" about his actions and isn't interested in a pardon for his conviction. Trump, when contacted by the Journal, said, “I would absolutely have Peter back. This outrageous behavior by the Democrats should not have happened.”
Navarro, who is scheduled to speak at the Republican National Convention, said that he hasn't considered going back to the White House but would do so "if the boss needs me."
The brainchild behind many of the former president's draconian trade war policies, Navarro was referred and convicted of contempt of Congress after he categorically refused to cooperate with the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol.
Also convicted on the same charge and given the same sentence was longtime Trump associate Steve Bannon.
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Navarro spent several months appealing and fighting his conviction, trying to get it thrown out, but ultimately exhausted his legal remedies and was ordered to report to prison. Since then, he has been fighting from within lockup to try to get his sentence shortened or modified, also to no avail.
"Navarro is being held at Federal Correctional Institution Miami, which is for male inmates. Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega spent two decades there for drug trafficking. Lou Pearlman, the boy-band impresario turned swindler, died in 2016 while serving 25 years," noted the Journal report. "Navarro is in quarters for low-security offenders. Shortly before his surrender in March, when he showed up in all black with a green bomber jacket, CNN observed that inmates could hear the roar of lions from the nearby zoo."