Imprisoned Peter Navarro plans to speak at the Republican National Convention

[Tom of Temecula]

Disgraced former White House trade adviser Peter Navarro is making plans to speak at the Republican National Convention in July despite serving a prison sentence for contempt of Congress.

While serving four months in prison, Navarro spoke to Semafor about his plans. "Navarro said he hopes to speak at the Republican National Convention if he can make it out in time," Semafor reported, "with his scheduled release date of around July 17 falling in the middle of the gathering. He wants to tout Trump's economic agenda, laid out in a book he has been wrapping up in prison, The New MAGA Deal, which will be released the week of the convention." Navarro suggested his book was a blueprint for the first 100 days of Donald Trump's second term.

" Trump will also quickly seal the border and begin mass deportations," the former adviser told Semafor, "Biden has imported a wave of crime and terrorism along with an uneducated mass that drives down wages of Black, brown, and blue-collar Americans. Blacks and Hispanics, particularly males in the workforce, are flocking to Trump in droves."

Navarro also predicted that Fed Chairman Jay Powell would be ousted and "will be gone in a hundred days one way or the other." He recommended Trump's Former Council of Economic Advisers Chair Kevin Hassett as a "logical replacement." According to Navarro, the tariffs Trump placed on China did not impact inflation. "The imposition of tariffs on Communist China had ZERO impact on inflation. In a general equilibrium economic world, tariffs over time boost growth and real wages; they are not inflationary," he insisted.

https://www.rawstory.com/peter-navarro-rnc/

[marble falls]

1. Speak or whine?

[PJMcK]

2. His arrogance is remarkable

So, too, is his total lack of contrition.

[getagrip_already]

3. Time for a snap inspection of his cell....

I'm sure he has contraband good for a couple of extra weeks on his sentence.

[Traildogbob]

5. Would not be a GQP party

Without him. Prelims will be every J6 convict already released. And headlining night one prime time, Rittenhouse.

[Kid Berwyn]

4. Tell us about the Green Bay Sweep, again, Pete!

Traitor.

[underpants]

6. Not according to the right leaning Tax Foundation

“The policy is very bad. Tariffs make consumers poorer. They shrink the economy,” Alex Durante, an economist at the Tax Foundation, a right-leaning think tank, told CNN in a phone interview. “This would probably be the most damaging part of a Trump 2.0 economic agenda.”

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/11/economy/trump-tariffs-trade-jobs-inflation/index.html

Key Findings

The Trump administration imposed nearly $80 billion worth of new taxes on Americans by levying tariffs on thousands of products valued at approximately $380 billion in 2018 and 2019, amounting to one of the largest tax increases in decades.

The Biden administration has kept most of the Trump administration tariffs in place, except for a five-year suspension of WTO aircraft dispute tariffs, replacement of certain steel and aluminum tariffs with tariff rate quotas, and the expiration of washing machine tariffs.

We estimate the tariffs still in effect will reduce long-run GDP by 0.21 percent, wages by 0.14 percent, and employment by 166,000 full-time equivalent jobs.

https://taxfoundation.org/research/all/federal/tariffs-trump-trade-war/

[BoRaGard]

7. Is he scheduled before or after the Hell's Angels guy?

The GOP's boss wants to know so he can plan how to sucker Americans again.

[EarlG]

8. I'd heard of the school-to-prison pipeline

Looks like we now also have a prison-to-Republican-National-Convention pipeline.