In 2017, during the last Trump presidency, Politico suggested Navarro was “the most dangerous man in Trump world”.
Navarro – whom Musk has just called a “moron” (see more in our previous post) – is a long-time aide and confidante of Donald Trump and a true loyalist.
His economic views are well beyond mainstream economic thought.
He is a long-time advocate of tariffs with upfront plans to upend the post-Second World War economic system of free trade and international institutions.
Establishment economists consider him to be fringe.
That’s precisely why he appeals to Trump.
He was jailed in 2024 for defying a congressional subpoena. He was told to appear before the House Select Committee investigating the 6 January 2021 attack on the Capitol. He refused to comply.
The committee alleged that he developed plans to overturn the outcome of the 2020 election.
The subpoena was motivated by a plan Navarro revealed in a book published in 2021. Green Bay Sweep was a plot by he and other Trump loyalists to overturn the 2020 election.
He described it as “last, best chance to snatch a stolen election from the Democrats’ jaws of deceit.”
I had a run-in with Navarro last month as I challenged hm on tariffs – watch the moment he told me to ‘stop that crap’ here…
