By CHRIS MEGERIAN
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump is bringing Peter Navarro, a former adviser who served jail time associated to the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol, again to the White Home for his second administration.
Navarro will function a senior counselor for commerce and manufacturing, Trump introduced on Reality Social, his social media web site.
Trump wrote that the place “leverages Peter’s broad vary of White Home expertise, whereas harnessing his in depth Coverage analytic and Media abilities.”
Navarro, a commerce adviser throughout Trump’s first time period, was held in contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena from the Home committee that investigated Jan. 6. Sentenced to 4 months in jail, he described his conviction because the “partisan weaponization of the judicial system.”
Shortly after being launched, Navarro spoke on stage on the Republican Nationwide Conference in July, the place he informed the group that “I went to jail so that you gained’t must.”
Trump additionally introduced that he requested Michael Whatley to function chairman of the Republican Nationwide Committee. Whatley ran the committee in the course of the election together with Lara Trump, the spouse of Trump’s son Eric.
Trump selected Daniel Driscoll as Military secretary, Jared Isaacman as NASA administrator and Adam Boehler as particular presidential envoy for hostage affairs.
