President-elect Donald Trump is reinstating Peter Navarro, a former adviser who served time for his connection to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, to the White House for his second term.
Navarro will serve as a senior advisor on trade and manufacturing, Trump announced on Truth Social, his social media website.
Trump wrote that the position “takes advantage of Peter’s wide range of experiences in the White House, while utilizing his extensive analytical and media management skills.”
Navarro, who was a trade adviser during Trump’s first term, was found in contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena from the House committee that investigated on January 6. Sentenced to four months in prison, he described his sentence as the “politicization of the judicial system.”
Shortly after being released, Navarro spoke on stage at the Republican National Convention in July, where he told the crowd that “I went to prison so you don’t have to.”
Trump also announced that he asked Michael Whatley to serve as chairman of the Republican National Committee. Whatley led the committee during the election along with Lara Trump, the wife of Trump’s son Eric.
Trump also chose Daniel Driscoll as Secretary of the Army, Jared Isaacman as NASA Administrator, and Adam Boehler as Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs.
Isaacman is a technology billionaire who bought a series of space flights from Elon Musk’s SpaceX and made the first private spacewalk.
Isaacman, 41, who is CEO and founder of a card processing company, has been a close associate of Musk since purchasing his first charter flight with SpaceX.
It carried contest winners on that 2021 trip and followed it in September with a mission where it briefly emerged through the hatch to test SpaceX’s new spacesuits.
If confirmed, Isaacman will replace Bill Nelson, 82, a former Democratic senator from Florida who was nominated by President Joe Biden. Nelson flew aboard the space shuttle Columbia in 1986, on the flight just before the Challenger disaster, while he was a legislator at the time.
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