Trump would ‘absolutely’ rehire Peter Navarro despite prison sentence

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Donald Trump has said he “would absolutely” rehire his federally imprisoned former economic adviser Peter Navarro if returned to the presidency in November. “I would absolutely have Peter back,” Trump – who has spent more than a year grappling with more than 80 of his own criminal charges – told the Wall Street Journal. “This outrageous behavior by the Democrats should not have happened.” Navarro since March has been serving a four-month sentence for contempt of Congress over his refusal to cooperate with an investigation into Trump supporters’ 6 January 2021 attack on the US Capitol. In the article that...