Peter Navarro: The Man Behind Trump’s Tariff Madness
How one man’s dogmatic trade war turned a roaring economic comeback into strategic drift, undermined Trump's Second-Term Momentum: He sat in prison for Trump, fabricated investigators in books he published, and is considered the president’s strategist on imposing tariffs on China. Professor Peter Navarro, a Harvard graduate, was once a Democrat who believed in liberal economics — but then everything changed. A profile of the man nobody in the White House likes, whom Elon Musk called "dumber than a brick," and who is almost universally regarded as "the worst trade adviser a U.S. president has ever had."