Former Trump White House aide <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/peter-navarro" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Peter Navarro</a> reported to prison in Florida on Tuesday to begin the four-month-long sentence after he did not show up for a deposition with the January 6 Committee in February 2022.
Before reporting to federal prison in Miami, Navarro, 74, blasted the “partisan weaponization” of the justice system, saying that he had been treated unfairly and targeted for his connections to former President Donald Trump. Navarro has argued that he did nothing wrong and was legally shielded from speaking to the now-disbanded January 6 Committee under the doctrine of executive privilege.
“I’m pissed. That’s what I’m feeling right now,” Navarro <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/19/peter-navarro-prison-miami-00147790" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> before heading off to prison, according to POLITICO. “But I’m also afraid of only one thing: I’m afraid for this country because this, what they’re doing, should have a chilling effect on every American regardless of their party. They come for me, they can come for you.”
“When I walk in that prison today, the justice system — such as it is — will have done a crippling blow to the constitutional separation of powers and executive privilege,” Navarro <a href="https://apnews.com/article/peter-navarro-jan-6-prison-congress-contempt-ea6f0e60dda1a7bcaef31012cd2c7678" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a>.
Navarro had hoped to avoid prison time while his case went through the appeals process, but his efforts were rejected by the courts, including an appeal to the Supreme Court that was shot down by Chief Justice John Roberts. 
Navarro has maintained that he did nothing wrong and was not obligated to meet with lawmakers on the January 6 Committee, which was disbanded after Republicans took control of the House in January 2023. The Department of Justice charged Navarro after Congress voted to hold him in contempt after they subpoenaed him to meet with House lawmakers and produce certain documents that they had requested. 
After his conviction in September 2023, he was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-advisor-will-spend-4-months-in-prison-for-doing-exactly-what-hunter-biden-did">sentenced</a> by U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta and ordered to pay a fine of $9,500 in January. Mehta told the former Trump economic advisor that he was not the “object of a political prosecution” and that “these are circumstances of your own making.”
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“In all of this, even today, there is little acknowledgement of what your obligation is as an American to cooperate with Congress, to provide them with information they are seeking,” Mehta said. “They had a job to do. And you made it harder. It’s really that simple.”
Trump <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-appearing-melania-slams-ny-fraud-case-peter/story?id=108273396" target="_blank" rel="noopener">denounced</a> the prosecution and sentencing of Navarro on Tuesday, saying that it was &#8220;a disgrace&#8221; that he was going to prison. The former president added that Navarro was &#8220;a great patriot&#8221; who had been treated &#8220;very unfairly.&#8221;

Ex-Trump Aide Peter Navarro Reports To Prison In Florida For Contempt Of Congress Conviction

Former Trump Aide Peter Navarro Decries ‘Partisan Weaponization’ Of Justice As He Begins Prison Sentence

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Former Trump White House aide <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/peter-navarro" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Peter Navarro</a> on Monday was ordered to report to federal prison next week for the four-month-long sentence he was given after he did not show up for a deposition with the January 6 Committee in February 2022.
District Judge Amit Mehta told Navarro, who was convicted last year by a D.C. jury on two counts of contempt of Congress, to report to a prison in Miami on March 19. Navarro had hoped to avoid prison time while his case went through the appeals process. 
The 74-year-old former Trump economic advisor was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-advisor-will-spend-4-months-in-prison-for-doing-exactly-what-hunter-biden-did" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sentenced</a> and ordered to pay a fine of $9,500  in January after his conviction in September 2023. Navarro has maintained that he did nothing wrong and was not obligated to meet with lawmakers on the January 6 Committee, which was disbanded after Republicans took control of the House in January 2023. 
“Dr. Navarro has now been ordered to report to the custody of the Bureau of Prisons, FCI Miami, on or before 2:00PM EDT on March 19, 2024,” Navarro’s lawyer <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/11/peter-navarro-prison-march-19-00146225" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a filing on Sunday. “Accordingly, Dr. Navarro respectfully reiterates his request for an administrative stay … Should this Court deny Dr. Navarro’s motion, he respectfully requests an administrative stay so as to permit the Supreme Court review of this Court’s denial.”
Throughout the process, Navarro has maintained that executive privilege should shield him from being forced to meet with the January 6 Committee. His arguments have so far been rejected, with Mehta not allowing him to use executive privilege as his defense during trial. 
“For the first time in history, a senior presidential advisor has been convicted of contempt of Congress after asserting executive privilege over a congressional subpoena,” Navarro&#8217;s lawyer <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/peter-navarro-ordered-to-report-to-miami-prison-on-march-19-post-5605026?ea_src=frontpage&amp;ea_med=lead-special-courts-medium-0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “Dr. Navarro has appealed and will raise a number of issues on appeal that he contends are likely to result in the reversal of his conviction, or a new trial.”
The Department of Justice charged Navarro after Congress voted to hold him in contempt after they subpoenaed him to meet with House lawmakers and produce certain documents that they had requested. 
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The House also previously voted, mostly along party lines, to recommend other Trump aides &#8211; including Steve Bannon, Dan Scavino, and Mark Meadows – to the Justice Department for contempt of Congress charges. Bannon, who was also convicted of contempt of Congress charges, was sentenced to four months in prison but has yet to serve any time as his case goes through the appeals process.
After he was indicted, Navarro <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trying-to-intimidate-me-peter-navarro-rips-january-6-committee-doj-after-indictment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that the January 6 Committee was trying to intimidate him.
“Congress has weaponized the investigatory powers of congress in a way which is unconstitutional,” Navarro said in June 2022 after a court hearing on the indictment. “The people of America need to understand, Congress has the right to investigate, but only for non-punitive, legislative purposes. What that committee is doing is investigating for punitive purposes.”
“They intercepted me getting on the plane and they put me in handcuffs, they bring me here, they put me in leg irons, they stick me in a cell,” he said. “They just came with the full force of the federal government and put the hammer down trying to intimidate me.”

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A key advisor to former President Donald Trump was sentenced Thursday to serve four months in prison for doing exactly what President Joe Biden&#8217;s son Hunter did just a few weeks ago.
Peter Navarro, who advised Trump on matters of trade and manufacturing, was subpoenaed to appear before the January 6th Committee for a deposition in March of 2022 and was ordered to provide documents to the committee one month prior — neither of which he did.
The Justice Department charged Navarro as a private citizen several months later, on June 2, 2022.
In addition to his <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-white-house-official-peter-navarro-learns-sentenced-months-defying-jan-6-subpoena" target="_blank" rel="noopener">four-month sentence</a>, Navarro was ordered to pay a fine of $9,500 — reduced by U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta from the six months and $200,000 the Justice Department had requested. As the DOJ noted in the request, every individual count of contempt of Congress can carry 30 days to one year in jail, and a fine of up to $100,000.
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Peter Navarro saved lives by urging. Trump to close the border to China in the first days of COVID. Now a DC court is jailing him for what Hunter Biden did &#8211; contempt of Congress. But Navarro felt he was bound by privilege not to comply with a J6 subpoena <a href="https://t.co/sNEtHsRjqb">https://t.co/sNEtHsRjqb</a>
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A similar situation — absent the Justice Department taking action — has played out with President Biden&#8217;s embattled son in recent weeks.
Hunter Biden <a href="https://apnews.com/article/hunter-biden-congress-investigation-impeachment-0226bb1041d7b5c10bc8c33e5d98b5e0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defied a subpoena</a> to appear before the House Oversight Committee for a closed-door deposition. Instead, the younger Biden claimed repeatedly that he would testify publicly and even staged a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-biden-shows-up-to-capitol-defies-subpoena-for-house-deposition" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press conference</a> on the opposite side of the Capitol from where he had been ordered to appear.
Kimberly Guilfoyle summed up the comparison in a post on X, saying, &#8220;What an absolute disgrace. Peter Navarro sentenced to prison for refusing to play along with the Democrats’ illegitimate sham J6 circus While Hunter Biden defies a subpoena, mocks the entire process, and gets to stroll through Capitol Hill. Justice is dead.&#8221;
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What an absolute disgrace. 
Peter Navarro sentenced to prison for refusing to play along with the Democrats’ illegitimate sham J6 circus 
While Hunter Biden defies a subpoena, mocks the entire process, and gets to stroll through Capitol Hill 
Justice is dead. <a href="https://t.co/SFaVnf0D9e">https://t.co/SFaVnf0D9e</a>
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&#8220;Hunter Biden sentenced to 4 months for defying subpoena? &#8230; Oh wait, that&#8217;s Peter Navarro&#8216;s sentence,&#8221; another added.
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Hunter Biden sentenced to 4 months for defying subpoena? &#8230; 
Oh wait, that&#39;s Peter Navarro&#39;s sentence
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Republicans moved to hold Hunter Biden in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-biden-makes-surprise-appearance-while-lawmakers-meet-on-holding-him-in-contempt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">contempt of Congress</a>, but he crashed the hearing, once again declaring that he would only volunteer to testify in public. The president&#8217;s son has since <a href="https://apnews.com/article/hunter-biden-congress-contempt-subpoena-058b67e9d69bd12d14b8e395c2aadaf0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly agreed</a> to sit for a private deposition at the end of February.

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Former Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro made a defiant statement outside a Washington, D.C., courthouse on Friday after he was arrested by the FBI for contempt of Congress.
A grand jury <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-former-trump-adviser-peter-navarro-indicted-for-refusing-to-cooperate-with-january-6-committee">indicted</a> Navarro on Friday on two charges of contempt of Congress for allegedly failing to comply with a subpoena from the House committee investigating the riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6 last year. Navarro said FBI agents arrested him as he was boarding a plane to Nashville.
“Congress has weaponized the investigatory powers of congress in a way which is unconstitutional,” Navarro <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBLYunKH1-I">said</a> Friday after a court hearing on the indictment. “The people of America need to understand, Congress has the right to investigate, but only for non-punitive, legislative purposes. What that committee is doing is investigating for punitive purposes.”
Navarro repeatedly criticized his treatment by the January 6 committee, President Joe Biden’s Justice Department, and the FBI. Navarro said that the FBI had disregarded his attempts and offer to cooperate with agents on legal issues stemming from the committee’s subpoena. Instead, the agents intercepted him as he was boarding a plane to Nashville to appear on former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee’s television show.
“Today the punishment which was inflicted upon a man presumed innocent and innocent until proven guilty demonstrates the utter disregard for the Constitution and the law that the Department of Justice has,” Navarro said.
“They intercepted me getting on the plane and they put me in handcuffs, they bring me here, they put me in leg irons, they stick me in a cell,” he said. “They just came with the full force of the federal government and put the hammer down trying to intimidate me.”
Navarro is apparently representing himself in the court over his indictment. “Part of the Democrats strategy is to engage in what is called &#8216;lawfare,&#8217; which is they use the legal system for effectively coercion and illicit ends. I do not want to spend several hundred thousand dollars on lawyers.”
Each count of contempt of Congress carries a penalty of up to one year in prison and a $100,000 fine. The committee subpoenaed Navarro in February for documents and a deposition based on the committee’s belief that he possessed “information relevant to the committee’s investigation,” the subpoena <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/press-release/file/1510231/download">said</a>, according to the indictment.
Navarro is the second top Trump White House official to face an indictment related to the House committee’s investigation into January 6. The committee indicted former Trump aid Steve Bannon in November on similar charges.

‘Trying To Intimidate Me’: Peter Navarro Rips January 6 Committee, DOJ After Indictment

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A grand jury indicted former Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro on Friday on two counts of contempt of Congress for refusing to cooperate with the House committee investigating the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
One count charged that Navarro failed to appear for a deposition by the committee. The other charge is related to his alleged failure to produce documents requested under a subpoena by the House committee, according to the <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/peter-navarro-indicted-contempt-congress">Department of Justice</a>.
Each count carries a penalty of up to one year in prison and a $100,000 fine. The committee subpoenaed Navarro in February for documents and a deposition based on the committee’s belief that he possessed “information relevant to the committee’s investigation,” the subpoena <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/press-release/file/1510231/download">said</a>.
Navarro “reportedly worked with Steve Bannon and others to develop and implement a plan to delay and [sic] Congress’s certification of, and ultimately change the outcome of, the November 2020 presidential election,” the subpoena said, according to the indictment.
Navarro is expected to appear in court Friday at 2:30 p.m. ET in Washington, D.C.
Navarro is the second top adviser to former President Donald Trump to be indicted by a grand jury with charges related to the January 6 committee. The committee, which Republicans have slammed as the government weaponized against the GOP, indicted former Trump aid Bannon in November on similar charges.
Bannon was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/steve-bannon-surrenders-after-being-indicted-on-contempt-of-congress-charges">indicted</a> on two counts of contempt of Congress for allegedly failing to abide by a subpoena for a deposition and for documents related to the January 6 riot.
The House committee investigating January 6 has referred multiple former top members of Trump’s staff to the Department of Justice, including Dan Scavino and Mark Meadows, both former Trump chiefs of staff, according to <a href="https://www.axios.com/2022/06/03/peter-navarro-indicted-congress-contempt-trump">Axios</a>.
The House has voted, mostly along party lines, to recommend all four men – Navarro, Bannon, Scavino, and Meadows – to the Justice Department for contempt of Congress charges. The DOJ has yet to act against Scavino and Meadows, according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/03/us/politics/peter-navarro-contempt-jan-6.html">The New York Times</a>.
This post has been updated with additional information.

Former Trump Adviser Peter Navarro Indicted For Refusing To Cooperate With January 6 Committee

CNN host Jake Tapper abruptly ended an interview on Sunday with White House Trade Adviser Peter Navarro after Navarro blasted CNN for not being &#8220;honest with the American people.&#8221;
The interview on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; lasted several minutes before &#8220;things escalated quickly&#8221; and &#8220;the exchange was abruptly shut down after the conversation devolved into a political fight,&#8221; Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/peter-navarro-abruptly-cut-from-cnn-jake-tapper-trump-covid">reported</a>. Tapper accused the Trump administration and Navarro, in response, &#8220;flipped the script and accused CNN of lying to the American people, which led Tapper to end the interview.&#8221;
&#8220;You’re not honest with the American people,&#8221; Navarro replied. &#8220;CNN is not honest with the American people. Do you want to go there? We can do that.&#8221;
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<blockquote>JAKE TAPPER, CNN HOST: Welcome back the STATE OF THE UNION. I&#8217;m Jake Tapper.
Last night, President Trump kicked off a campaign swing through the Western U.S., after a challenging week in his reelection campaign, with new revelations about his decision to downplay the threat of the coronavirus.
Joining me now, White House trade adviser and assistant to President Trump Peter Navarro.
Mr. Navarro, thanks so much for joining us.
So, you just heard Mayor Garcetti of Los Angeles saying that they work well with federal partners, but it does seem like the response from the federal government, especially the attention and enthusiasm from President Trump, depends on whether or not it is a red or blue state suffering from a disaster.
What&#8217;s your response?
PETER NAVARRO, DIRECTOR, WHITE HOUSE OFFICE OF TRADE AND MANUFACTURING POLICY: Well, that&#8217;s offensive.
If you look at what President Trump did, for example, for the city and state of New York, it was an incredible transfer of resources up there, ships, PPE. Everything that New York wanted, they got.
So, please, Mr. Garcetti, take care of Los Angeles better than you are doing.
I would &#8212; if &#8212; one of the things I&#8217;d like to do before we get started, though, is, I would really like to congratulate President Trump on being nominated for the Peace Prize, the Nobel Peace Prize, because this last week, if you look at the signal, rather than the noise, he brokered a second&#8230;
TAPPER: Yes.
NAVARRO: &#8230; deal with Bahrain. We have got Mike Pompeo, a real warrior for peace, in Qatar trying to broker a deal to get us out of Afghanistan.
TAPPER: So, I &#8212; OK.
NAVARRO: We&#8217;re withdrawing troops from Iraq.
TAPPER: Yes.
NAVARRO: And we have relative stability on the Korean Peninsula.
TAPPER: OK.
NAVARRO: So these are big&#8230;
TAPPER: I understand.
NAVARRO: &#8230; issues that I think is important.
But go ahead.
TAPPER: All right, I want to keep talking about the fires in your former home state of California.
NAVARRO: Sure.
TAPPER: I want you to listen to what California Governor Gavin Newsom had to say about what&#8217;s happening in his state.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
GOV. GAVIN NEWSOM (D-CA): The debate is over around climate change. Just come to the state of California. Observe it with your own eyes. It&#8217;s not an intellectual debates. It&#8217;s not even debatable any longer. This is a climate damn emergency. This is real. And it&#8217;s happening.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
TAPPER: Now, I don&#8217;t think I have to convince you of this, because, in a paper that you co-wrote 20 years ago, when you were a professor at U.C. Irvine, you called climate change &#8212; quote &#8212; &#8220;one of the most important environmental problems of our time.&#8221;
Unfortunately, I think you might be alone in the White House in holding that view that is scientific consensus.
(LAUGHTER)
TAPPER: Is anyone at the White House listening to you on this issue? NAVARRO: I think what&#8217;s important now, as the entire West Coast is
suffering from these fires, is to think about how to manage these fires.
And I equally believe that what we have seen in California &#8212; and I have seen this firsthand &#8212; is that, for many, many years, particularly because of budget cutbacks, there was no inclination to manage our forests. That&#8217;s actually a real issue, Jake.
And whether or not it&#8217;s 10 percent or 90 percent&#8230;
TAPPER: Isn&#8217;t climate change also &#8212; isn&#8217;t climate change also a real issue?
NAVARRO: Look, I&#8217;m not &#8212; that&#8217;s not my expertise, Jake.
And, really, I came here to talk about a lot of things.
TAPPER: OK.
NAVARRO: That was the last on my list.
TAPPER: Well&#8230;
NAVARRO: Let&#8217;s pray for the people of California right now. And once we put the fires out, let&#8217;s have that debate.
But I &#8212; one of the things I do want to talk about &#8212; and Garcetti said something about this which I think was wrong &#8212; is this thing about the Woodward&#8217;s seriousness issue, OK?
And let me &#8212; let me explain something here.
TAPPER: Well, let&#8217;s talk about that.
NAVARRO: Yes.
TAPPER: Fine. You want to talk about, let&#8217;s turn to that.
NAVARRO: Yes, let&#8217;s turn to that.
TAPPER: Let&#8217;s turn to the revelations from Bob Woodward&#8217;s book, which comes out on Tuesday.
NAVARRO: Sure. Sure.
TAPPER: I want you to take a listen to what President Trump told Woodward in private on February 7.
NAVARRO: Great. That&#8217;s a great day to start.
(BEGIN AUDIO CLIP)
TRUMP: You just breathe the air, and that&#8217;s how it&#8217;s passed. It&#8217;s also more deadly than your &#8212; your &#8212; even your strenuous flus.
This is more deadly. This is 5 per &#8212; this is 5 percent vs. 1 percent and less than 1 percent. So this is deadly stuff.
(END AUDIO CLIP)
TAPPER: So, that&#8217;s February 7.
NAVARRO: Yes.
TAPPER: He&#8217;s stating that the coronavirus&#8230;
NAVARRO: Yes.
TAPPER: &#8230; is five times deadlier than the regular influenza.
Now, here&#8217;s what he was saying publicly two weeks later. Take a listen.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN SENIOR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: Mr. President, you talked about the flu and then in comparison to the coronavirus. The flu has a fatality ratio of about 0.1 percent.
TRUMP: Correct.
GUPTA: This has a fatality ratio somewhere between 2 and 3 percent. Given that and the fact&#8230;
TRUMP: Well, we think &#8212; we think &#8212; we don&#8217;t know exactly what it is.
GUPTA: Based on the numbers so far&#8230;
TRUMP: And the flu is higher than that. The flu is much higher than that.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
NAVARRO: All right. Now&#8230;
TAPPER: So, just to be clear &#8212; I&#8217;m going to give you the mic in a sec, but just to be clear for people watching&#8230;
(CROSSTALK)
NAVARRO: Yes.
TAPPER: &#8230; on February 7, he was acknowledging to Bob Woodward behind closed doors coronavirus was five times deadlier than the flu.
Less than two weeks later, he was saying the exact opposite in public to Sanjay Gupta. He was misleading the American people. Why?
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NAVARRO: OK. Let me &#8212; now that I have the mic, give me &#8212; give me a minute to walk through the timeline, because I think this is really important.
On January 31, that was basically the starting gun to fight this virus that came in from the &#8212; from the Chinese Communist Party. Let&#8217;s not forget where this started. And that was a signal from this president that that was &#8212; this is a serious, serious matter. He&#8217;s taking down flights from China.
He was called a xenophobe and a racist by Joe Biden&#8230;
TAPPER: No, he wasn&#8217;t.
NAVARRO: &#8230; who later had to apologize.
TAPPER: No, he wasn&#8217;t. And he didn&#8217;t apologize.
NAVARRO: Well, I will &#8212; we will do the fact-check on that. I watched that.
TAPPER: I just did.
NAVARRO: All right. Well, you&#8217;re wrong.
TAPPER: No.
NAVARRO: So, January 31, pulls down the flights, saves probably hundreds of thousands of American lives.
Now, what happened then, Jake? Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s important. This is breaking news for you.
In that first week of February, leading up to February 7, we here at the White House started a strategy. It basically was, hope for the best, prepare for the worst, stay calm, and begin to attack this virus from China on four different vectors.
TAPPER: Yes.
NAVARRO: Hang on. Let me have the mic here.
TAPPER: Well, I&#8217;m not just &#8212; I&#8217;m not giving you 10 minutes to do this.
NAVARRO: PPE, therapeutics, vaccines&#8230;
TAPPER: Uh-huh. OK.
NAVARRO: &#8230; and &#8212; and therapeutics, OK?
So, what happened? So, on February 7&#8230;
TAPPER: I&#8217;m specifically talking about what President Trump was saying to the public&#8230;
NAVARRO: Yes&#8230;
TAPPER: &#8230; in February and March.
NAVARRO: You&#8217;re not &#8212; Jake, not fair here. Let me finish here.
TAPPER: You&#8217;re not answering my question.
NAVARRO: So, on February 7, President Trump talks to Woodward.
What happens on February 9? This is the most important thing.
A memo &#8212; I write a memo that goes out to the task force here that basically outlines President Trump&#8217;s strategy for dealing with the virus. And, in this memo, it brings to the effect that we need N95 masks, that we need to go after thera&#8230;
TAPPER: Did your&#8230;
NAVARRO: Hang on. Hang on. Let me finish this, Jake.
TAPPER: No, because you&#8217;re not answering my question, Peter.
NAVARRO: Jake, I am.
(CROSSTALK)
TAPPER: The question is, about what is the president &#8212; you&#8217;re talking about what you were doing privately.
NAVARRO: Jake, Jake, Jake&#8230;
TAPPER: Let me &#8212; let&#8217;s posit right now&#8230;
NAVARRO: Now, hang on, Jake. Jake&#8230;
TAPPER: On January 29, you were issuing a warning.
NAVARRO: Jake&#8230;
TAPPER: You were saying behind closed&#8230;
NAVARRO: This is not fair, Jake.
TAPPER: You&#8217;re not answering&#8230;
NAVARRO: You&#8217;re constantly interrupting me, and you&#8217;re not letting me talk.
TAPPER: You&#8217;re not answering my question. Why was he misleading the public?
NAVARRO: I am answering it. You just don&#8217;t like the answer, Jake.
(CROSSTALK)
TAPPER: I understand your memo. We have talked about this before on this show.
NAVARRO: No, no, no, not this memo, not this memo. February 9 &#8212; this is breaking news. This is not the memo I wrote on
January 29 in support of the president&#8217;s decision to pull down the travel ban, which saved hundreds of thousands of lives.
This is a memo, Jake, that said, among other things, that if we start right now, we could have a vaccine by the end of the year.
And my point here, Jake, is that we&#8217;re in the fog of war. We have got some people, including the medical professionals, saying, it&#8217;s no worse than the flu. We have got others saying that this could be a very serious pandemic.
And the president is absolutely right. What he needed to do is be calm, hope for the best, but prepare for the worst, and attack the virus on these four vectors, PPE, therapeutics, vaccines, and testing.
TAPPER: We have heard &#8212; we have&#8230;
NAVARRO: And that&#8217;s what we did.
TAPPER: OK.
NAVARRO: And, so, look&#8230;
TAPPER: So, we have heard government officials say that the president should have been straightforward with the American people, and he was, not just Democrats, by the way.
NAVARRO: The president&#8230;
TAPPER: I want you to take a listen.
NAVARRO: Look&#8230;
TAPPER: Here&#8217;s Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine, followed by Democratic Governor Phil Murphy of New Jersey. Take a listen to them.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
SEN. SUSAN COLLINS (R-ME): The American people can take hard facts.
And he had an obligation, as president, to be straightforward with them.
GOV. PHIL MURPHY (D-NJ): If we had known that earlier, we would have shut the state meaningfully earlier. It&#8217;s inconceivable to me that we wouldn&#8217;t have been able to save lives as a result of that.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
NAVARRO: All right, may I respond now, Jake? May I respond?
TAPPER: Bipartisan consensus, bipartisan consensus yet &#8212; that the president should have been straightforward.
(CROSSTALK)
NAVARRO: Can I respond here, Jake, OK?
Yes, go back to February and March. We&#8217;re in the fog of war from the China virus. There are competing views as to whether this is simply the flu or whether this is very serious.
TAPPER: What are the competing views?
NAVARRO: And we go through &#8212; hang on.
The scientists said &#8212; look, you had&#8230;
TAPPER: You&#8217;re talking about something else.
NAVARRO: You had Nancy Pelosi dancing with scarves in Chinatown at the end of February, saying, come on down. You had de Blasio and Cuomo in March saying, come on down.
You had Dr. Fauci saying that there was low risk.
TAPPER: Why wasn&#8217;t the president straightforward with the American people? Why&#8230;
NAVARRO: He was straightforward.
TAPPER: No, he wasn&#8217;t.
NAVARRO: There was &#8212; look, look, Jake, Jake, I&#8217;m telling you what our strategy is.
TAPPER: Just answer the &#8212; it&#8217;s a very basic question.
Right. You want to talk about what you want to talk about, OK?
NAVARRO: You&#8217;re cherry-picking. You&#8217;re cherry-picking.
TAPPER: No, I&#8217;m not cherry-picking.
On February 7, he knew that it was in the air, that it was five times deadlier than the flu.
NAVARRO: You&#8217;re beating this &#8212; you&#8217;re beating this thing &#8212; no.
(CROSSTALK)
TAPPER: Five times deadlier. That&#8217;s on the tape.
NAVARRO: He expressed that to Woodward, but, at the same time, he&#8217;s getting the&#8230;
TAPPER: Two weeks later, he&#8217;s saying that the flu is deadlier than the coronavirus. Why wasn&#8217;t he honest?
NAVARRO: Jake, you just &#8212; you just don&#8217;t want to listen, Jake. You just don&#8217;t want to listen. TAPPER: I want you to answer the question.
NAVARRO: You just &#8212; I am answering your question. You just don&#8217;t like the answer.
The answer is, in February all the way through the middle of March, when the World Health Organization finally said there was a pandemic and China was hiding the information, finally, that&#8217;s when we knew that there was a pandemic.
And you know what, Jake? We were at that point prepared for the worst.
In February, we were moving mountains on PPE, therapeutics, testings, and vaccines, so that, in the time that we needed those things, we got those things.
And it&#8217;s a miracle what we have been doing on vaccine development. We have a possibility of getting a vaccine by the end of the year. And I put that right in a memo on February 9, under the advice of the president, in terms of getting on this situation&#8230;
TAPPER: Yes.
NAVARRO: &#8230; because it might be serious.
You can&#8217;t have it both ways, Jake. You simply can&#8217;t.
TAPPER: I&#8217;m not trying to have it both ways. I&#8230;
NAVARRO: In February, nobody knew. No, nobody knew&#8230;
TAPPER: You just saw the president February 7.
NAVARRO: &#8230; not the president, not you, not Nancy Pelosi, not Bill de Blasio, whether we&#8230;
TAPPER: He knew it was deadlier than the flu, and he was lying to the American people two weeks later.
NAVARRO: He expressed &#8212; no. Jake, Jake, you&#8217;re cherry-picking, OK?
TAPPER: I&#8217;m not cherry-picking.
NAVARRO: Well, you can say &#8212; look, I think&#8230;
(CROSSTALK)
TAPPER: Look, here it is.
NAVARRO: All of this is asked and answered, Jake.
Look, here&#8217;s the thing. It&#8217;s like&#8230;
TAPPER: He was not honest with the American people. You&#8217;re not answering the question.
NAVARRO: &#8230; you guys &#8212; that &#8212; that &#8212; you&#8217;re wrong. You&#8217;re not honest with the American people. CNN is not honest with the American people.
TAPPER: OK.
NAVARRO: CNN&#8230;
TAPPER: OK.
NAVARRO: You &#8212; you want to go there?
I mean, CNN &#8212; we can do that.
TAPPER: I said, you&#8217;re not answering the question.
NAVARRO: I have answered your question. I have answered your question.
TAPPER: Here&#8217;s the thing.
Thank you, Peter Navarro.
We just played tape. You didn&#8217;t answer &#8212; you didn&#8217;t answer the question.
NAVARRO: I have answered &#8212; no, you can&#8217;t say that.
TAPPER: You didn&#8217;t answer the question. No, you didn&#8217;t.
NAVARRO: I answered the question repeatedly, Jake. You just didn&#8217;t like the answer.
TAPPER: OK, Peter Navarro, thank you so much. I appreciate your time today. Thank you so much.
NAVARRO: You didn&#8217;t like the answer.
(CROSSTALK)
TAPPER: And I would just like to remind the American people watching&#8230;
NAVARRO: I answered the question. I am reminding&#8230;</blockquote>

President Trump Holds News Conference In Brady Press Briefing Room

WATCH: CNN’s Jake Tapper Ends Interview After WH Official Blasts Network For Not Being ‘Honest’

Jake Tapper

A &#8220;senior White House aide&#8221; told Politico&#8217;s Jake Sherman Wednesday that Trump administration trade official Peter Navarro &#8220;went rogue&#8221; and bypassed clearly outlined policies when he published an op-ed in USA Today tearing into Dr. Anthony Fauci, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and trusted member of the president&#8217;s coronavirus response team.
Navarro &#8220;blistered&#8221; Fauci <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/todaysdebate/2020/07/14/anthony-fauci-wrong-with-me-peter-navarro-editorials-debates/5439374002/">in the Wednesday op-ed</a>, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trade-adviser-peter-navarro-tears-into-fauci-in-blistering-op-ed-wrong-about-everything">Fox News</a>, with the Director of Trade and Manufacturing Policy noting that the long-time government health advisor has a &#8220;good bedside manner,&#8221; but that Fauci “has been wrong about everything I have interacted with him on.&#8221;
In the op-ed, Navarro claims that Fauci “fought against” President Donald Trump&#8217;s decision to shut off all flights from China, where the novel coronavirus originated, that Fauci frequently misstated the risks of coronavirus transmission, and that the head of Trump&#8217;s coronavirus response team sowed confusion by &#8220;flip-flopping&#8221; on the use of masks.
“When I warned in late January in a memo of a possibly deadly pandemic, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases was telling our news media not to worry,&#8221; Navarro wrote. “Fauci was telling the public the China virus was low risk.&#8221;
&#8220;So when you ask me whether I listen to Dr. Fauci’s advice my answer is: only with skepticism and caution,&#8221; Navarro said.
The op-ed shocked readers, seemingly providing proof of an internal rift between Fauci and the President&#8217;s core team – a rift that many in the mainstream media have been seeking to verify for months, as the White House&#8217;s coronavirus response wore on.
The White House, though, seems to be denying that Navarro speaks for any member of senior staff but himself. In an appearance on MSNBC Wednesday morning, <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/tv/white-house-aide-tells-jake-sherman-that-peter-navarro-went-rogue-in-anti-fauci-op-ed/">Sherman told the anchors</a> that he&#8217;d received a text from a White House aide claiming that &#8220;Peter Navarro went rogue and he bypassed the Op-Ed approval process in writing in the nation’s largest paper, USA Today, that he doesn’t trust Anthony Fauci.”
“I’m not actually sure if that’s better or worse, frankly, and it kind of leaves me speechless that a senior aide to the president would publish an Op-Ed on his own, but that’s what their line is, is that they didn’t approve this Op-Ed, and they did it without permission,&#8221; Sherman added.
ABC News senior White House reporter Katherine Faulders said on social media that she&#8217;d been told the same thing, also by an unnamed senior White House aide.
&#8220;Navarro went rogue and put out his personal opinion without any approvals. The White House does not stand by these unauthorized opinions and Mr. Navarro owes Dr. Fauci an apology,&#8221; Faudlers wrote, quoting the source.
President Donald Trump, speaking at a Rose Garden press conference Wednesday morning, also said that Navarro was giving his own opinion.
&#8220;That&#8217;s Peter Navarro,&#8221; Trump said, <a href="https://twitter.com/ZekeJMiller/status/1283429535996882946">per AP reporter Zeke Miller</a>, &#8220;but I have a very good relationship with Dr. Fauci.&#8221;

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White House Claims Senior Aide Peter Navarro ‘Went Rogue’ In Criticism Of Dr. Fauci, Coronavirus Response

Anthony Fauci

COVID

Appearing on “Sunday Morning Futures” with host Maria Bartiromo this week, Trump administration trade advisor Peter Navarro discussed the ongoing examination of popular short-form video sharing app TikTok.
“The other thing that&#8217;s on the table that we need to talk about is this whole TikTok, WeChat social media thing,” Navarro stated following a discussion between himself and Bartiromo about Hong Kong.
<blockquote>What the American people have to understand is, all the data that goes into those mobile apps that kids have so much fun with and seem so convenient, it goes right to servers in China, right to the Chinese military, the Chinese Communist Party, and the agencies which want to steal our intellectual property.
Those apps can be used to steal personal and financial information for blackmail and extortion. They can be used to steal business intellectual property and proprietary secrets.</blockquote>
Navarro added that “besides surveilling and tracking Americans,” Chinese mobile apps can be used for “information warfare” purposes, stressing that what China wants is for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden to win in November.
The trade advisor continued, comparing TikTok and WeChat to Chinese phone maker Huawei, which he suggested placed “an American puppet in charge &#8230; as the CEO” in order to claim that the entity is independent of China, and therefore not a threat to America.
“They&#8217;re trying that game with TikTok,” Navarro stated. “Not gonna work.”
Navarro then told Bartiromo to “expect strong action on that.”
Bartiromo noted that the American CEO of TikTok used to work at Disney, “but the Chinese individual who’s a communist member is the chairman.”
“But this is what I thought was really interesting. This week, we had a headline that says Democratic National Committee is warning against campaigns on using TikTok,” the host added. “Even the Democratic National Committee is voicing concern.”
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As scrutiny over TikTok has intensified, there has been a push by some to ban the app.
In March, Senators Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Rick Scott (R-FL) introduced <a href="https://www.hawley.senate.gov/senators-hawley-scott-introduce-legislation-ban-tiktok-government-devices">legislation</a> that would “ban all federal employees from using TikTok on government devices,” according to a statement on Hawley’s Senate website.
Sen. Hawley said at the time:
<blockquote>TikTok is owned by a Chinese company that includes Chinese Communist Party members on its board, and it is required by law to share user data with Beijing. The company even admitted it collects user data while their app is running in the background – including the messages people send, pictures they share, their keystrokes and location data, you name it. As many of our federal agencies have already recognized, TikTok is a major security risk to the United States, and it has no place on government devices.</blockquote>
On Friday, Amazon reportedly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/amazon-says-order-for-employees-to-delete-tiktok-was-sent-in-error">sent an email</a> to its employees, which was obtained by The New York Times, instructing them to delete TikTok from their “mobile devices that access Amazon email” due to “security risks.” However, an Amazon spokesperson later <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/amazon-says-order-for-employees-to-delete-tiktok-was-sent-in-error">stated</a> that the email had been “sent in error.”
“There is no change to our policies right now with regard to TikTok,” they said.
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Navarro On TikTok: ‘All The Data’ ‘Goes Right To Servers In China’

China

A top White House official said Sunday that more Americans could die “indirectly” from the stay-at-home orders enacted in order to stem the spread of COVID-19 than from the virus itself.
Peter Navarro, who serves in the Trump administration as assistant to the president, director of trade and manufacturing policy, and the national Defense Production Act policy coordinator, said President Trump is right to urge governors to reopen their states.
“Opening up this economy is not a question of lives versus jobs,” Navarro said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
&#8220;President Trump realized early on that if you lock people down, you may save lives directly from the China virus, but you indirectly are going to kill a lot more people,” Navarro said.
More than 36 million Americans have lost their jobs during the virus panic as governors shut down all businesses they deemed &#8220;nonessential.&#8221; Millions have missed rent and mortgage payments, and a bunch of states plan to stay shut down until the end of May, with several planning lockdowns into June.
Navarro has made clear who&#8217;s to blame. “Yes, I do blame the Chinese,” Navarro said on ABC’s “This Week,&#8221; adding that China will be responsible for what he called a “Chinese winter” of global death and misery.
Navarro also blamed the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) for not getting ahead of the virus. “Early on, the CDC, which really had the most trusted brand around the world in this space, really let the country down with the testing,” Navarro said on NBC.
The White House adviser also accused China of a plot to &#8220;seed&#8221; the coronavirus globally by sending sick travelers around the world, all the while denying that the virus was a serious danger.
&#8220;I did not say they deliberately did it, but their China virus — let&#8217;s go over the facts here. Correct me if I&#8217;m wrong,&#8221; said Navarro. &#8220;The virus was spawned in Wuhan province. Patient zero was in November. The Chinese, behind the shield of the World Health Organization, for two months hid the virus from the world, and then sent hundreds of thousands of Chinese on aircraft to Milan, New York, and around the world to seed that. They could have kept it in Wuhan. Instead, it became a pandemic. So, that&#8217;s why I say the Chinese did that to Americans and they are responsible.&#8221;
Navarro also shot down George Stephanopoulos&#8217; claim that &#8220;lost weeks&#8221; in February set back the U.S. response to the virus:
<blockquote>So, first of all, I think it&#8217;s great that we have a president that can get along with all world leaders, so that&#8217;s number one. But number two, there&#8217;s no lost weeks. This starting gun for the China pandemic started on January 30th when President Trump had the courage to pull down the flights from China, that was an enormously courageous decision. He took a lot of heat from that.
And from that day, and I was personally involved in a lot of this, we were moving on three vectors on attack in February &#8212; vaccine development, development of therapeutics like Remdesivir, and building up the capacity for things like N95 masks. And the work we did throughout February has borne beautiful fruit here in the spring, because what we saw on Friday in the Rose Garden was the announcement of a 14-company race to a vaccine, with the goal of December, what we have seen therapeutics like Remdesivir already going into hospitals right now to save American lives and we had company like Honeywell building two factories in five weeks, George, instead of nine months, five weeks, that&#8217;s Trump time, to produce 20 million N95 masks a month.
So don&#8217;t tell me we lost February, because I was there. I&#8217;m right here. And this president was directing us to move as quickly as possible, even as publicly we were trying to figure out in the fog of war just how serious this pandemic.</blockquote>
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White House Coronavirus Task Force Holds Daily Briefing

Top White House Official Says Stay-At-Home Measures Could Kill More People ‘Indirectly’ Than Coronavirus

Economy

White House Trade Adviser Peter Navarro debunked ABC News host and former Clinton press secretary George Stephanopoulos&#8217; false claim on Sunday that the Trump administration &#8220;lost weeks&#8221; responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
&#8220;It was President Trump who was praising China all through the month of February,&#8221; Stephanopoulos claimed. &#8220;And, you know, there&#8217;s a lot of evidence that those lost weeks made a difference.&#8221;
&#8220;So, first of all, I think it&#8217;s great that we have a president who can get along with all world leaders, so that&#8217;s number one,&#8221; Navarro responded. &#8220;But number two, there&#8217;s no lost weeks. This starting gun for the China pandemic started on January 30th when President Trump had the courage to pull down the flights from China. That was an enormously courageous decision. He took a lot of heat from that.&#8221;
&#8220;And from that day, and I was personally involved in a lot of this, we were moving on three vectors of attack in February – vaccine development, development of therapeutics like remdesivir, and building up the capacity for things like N95 masks,&#8221; Navarro continued. &#8220;And the work we did throughout February has borne beautiful fruit here in the spring, because what we saw on Friday in the Rose Garden was the announcement of a 14-company race to a vaccine, with the goal of December, what we’ve seen is therapeutics like remdesivir already going into hospitals right now to save American lives, and we had [a] company like Honeywell building two factories in five weeks, George, instead of nine months, five weeks, that&#8217;s Trump time, to produce 20 million N95 masks a month.&#8221;
&#8220;So don&#8217;t tell me that we lost February because I was there. I&#8217;m right here,&#8221; Navarro concluded. &#8220;And this president was directing us to move as quickly as possible, even as publicly we were trying to figure out in the fog of war just how serious this pandemic would be.&#8221;
&#8220;It is true, according to all accounts, you were working quite hard during the month of February, including the accounts of that whistleblower Richard Bright talks about several meetings with you during the month of February on all the issues you just mentioned,&#8221; Stephanopoulos conceded. &#8220;He said you and he were allies on this, trying to break through road blocks that were coming from HHS and other parts of the government.&#8221;
However, Navarro&#8217;s timeline is a little off as the administration actually <a href="https://www.donaldjtrump.com/media/timeline-the-trump-administrations-decisive-actions-to-combat-the-coronavirus/">responded</a> to the pandemic in early January as CDC Director Robert Redfield repeatedly contacted Chinese officials during the first week in January in an attempt to get U.S. officials into the country to figure out what was going on and to help contain the outbreak. It was later revealed that China allegedly lied about the outbreak because they wanted to buy themselves time to <a href="https://apnews.com/bf685dcf52125be54e030834ab7062a8">hoard</a> medical supplies.
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Trade Adviser Peter Navarro Debunks Stephanopoulos Claim That Trump ‘Lost Weeks’ Responding To Pandemic

George Stephanopoulos

A top White House trade adviser on Monday said China &#8220;vacuumed up&#8221; masks and other protective gear in the weeks between learning that a deadly virus had emerged in Wuhan and notifying the World Health Organization (WHO).
Peter Navarro, who serves as White House Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy director, also said China exported “low-quality” antibody tests as he accused the communist country of “profiteering” off the coronavirus pandemic.
“They hid it for six weeks,&#8221; Navarro said of China. &#8220;They could have contained it in Wuhan. They vacuumed up the world for personal protective equipment — over 2 billion masks — depriving public health care workers around the world from the defenses they need, and today China’s profiteering, basically, from this situation.”
On antibody tests — which show who has already had the virus and therefore cannot be reinfected, most physicians say — Navarro said China is providing faulty equipment.
“One of the things that’s on my radar that’s really troublesome is there’s a lot of these antibody tests coming in from China now that are low-quality, false readings and things like that, and we&#8217;ve got to be really careful,” Navarro said on “<a href="https://video.foxnews.com/v/6152304651001">Fox &amp; Friends</a>.”
Most of the tests now on the market have not been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and many yield unreliable results.
Before the outbreak of the virus, China was making about half the world&#8217;s medical masks, some 20 million each day, <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/china-reportedly-takes-control-mask-production-numerous-countries-complain-faulty-exports-1500352">Newsweek</a> reported. &#8220;China&#8217;s mask industry has exploded in response to the pandemic, with producers in the nation now making more than 116 million every day,&#8221; the site says.
&#8220;The Chinese Communist Party&#8217;s tighter control over the production and distribution of masks has left some governments and firms unable to secure the equipment they need, according to multiple reports.&#8221;
Navarro said the U.S.-based 3M company, which has factories in China, saw those plants &#8220;nationalized, effectively&#8221; by the Chinese government.
Meanwhile, <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2020/04/26/china-has-nationalized-its-n95-mask-makers/#59daa7e344e2">Forbes</a> reports in a piece headlined &#8220;China Has ‘Nationalized’ Its N95 Mask Makers&#8221; that the move is &#8220;making it harder for buyers here to get their hands on a product that, once again, China dominates, says a big U.S. importer.&#8221;
“All of our orders, for millions of N95 masks, were canceled last week,” Leo Friedman, CEO of iPromo in Chicago, who has been importing tens of millions of masks all month, told Forbes. “They were for hospitals and state governments. We told them last week that we can’t get them.”
“Our China partners said they couldn’t get them to us because the government nationalized them a month ago,” Friedman says. “There are only a handful of N95 factories in China and now they are all enforcing the nationalization. They are busy with back orders to service Russian and European orders, I was told. This is the first time in my 20 years in business that I had to cancel orders and give money back.”
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Dealmed Medical Supply Facility As Global Mask Shortage Is About To Get Much Worse

White House: China ‘Vacuumed Up World’ For Masks Before COVID-19 News Broke, WH Adviser Says

White House trade adviser Peter Navarro outlined on Tuesday night the Chinese Communist Party&#8217;s (CCP) actions following the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, accusing them of committing &#8220;four kills.&#8221;
&#8220;The Chinese might call it the four kills, the killing of Americans. Let&#8217;s walk through it,&#8221; Navarro said during an interview on Fox News&#8217; &#8220;Hannity.&#8221;
&#8220;They spawned the virus probably in that P-4 lab right there in China and then they hid the virus behind the shield of the World Health Organization,&#8221; Navarro said. &#8220;What that did over a six-week period is allow hundreds of thousands of Wuhanians basically to get on aircraft and seed the world.&#8221;
&#8220;While they were doing that, and this is just disgusting, what they did was they vacuumed up all of the world&#8217;s masks, gloves, goggles, personal protective equipment, 2 billion masks, Sean, 2 billion masks,&#8221; Navarro continued. &#8220;That’s why in Milan, New York and other places, our people didn’t have them. Now, Sean, you know what they’re doing? What they&#8217;re doing is profiteering from this crisis, charging prices for a 50-cent mask, of $3, $4, $5 and more and sending us counterfeit tests.&#8221;
&#8220;That’s the four kills, the killing of Americans and people internationally,&#8221; Navarro concluded.
It is important to note that the first point that Navarro made, that the coronavirus was “spawned” in a lab is not exactly accurate. U.S. intelligence officials have <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/coronavirus-wuhan-lab-china-compete-us-sources">told</a> Fox News that they believe that the coronavirus escaped a high-level lab in Wuhan in an accident and that there is no evidence that the coronavirus was created or engineered in anyway.
The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/14/state-department-cables-warned-safety-issues-wuhan-lab-studying-bat-coronaviruses/">reported</a> the same conclusion a week ago:
<blockquote>As many have pointed out, there is no evidence that the virus now plaguing the world was engineered; scientists largely agree it came from animals. But that is not the same as saying it didn’t come from the lab, which spent years testing bat coronaviruses in animals, said Xiao Qiang, a research scientist at the School of Information at the University of California at Berkeley.</blockquote>
WATCH:
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Peter Navarro on Hannity tonight just torching China -&gt; &quot;They vacuumed up all of the worlds masks, gloves, goggles, personal protective equipment&#8230;.What they&#39;re doing is profiteering from this crisis&quot; by overcharging for PPE and even sending counterfeits <a href="https://t.co/SkdqBD6qyD">pic.twitter.com/SkdqBD6qyD</a>
&mdash; Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1252814670139805696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 22, 2020</a></blockquote>
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