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The sheer number of sources on this Washington Post report of abusive behavior by and the belligerent wrongness of Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro, who has for some reason inserted himself into a position of prime and unqualified decision-making on the administration's COVID-19 pandemic responses, sends a clear message: Team Trump is trying very hard to push Peter Navarro under the bus, but Navarro is such a nasty old cuss that nobody can quite get him to stay under there.
That Navarro's pandemic decisions have been questionable is not news. Navarro's focus on hydroxychloroquine sent the administration far down a useless path. His push for reforming Eastman Kodak into a drug producer quickly turned into a federal investigation on possible insider trading. His self-lauded contract purchasing ventilators at a near-500% markup from what they might normally go for was met with derision and, eventually, scaled down drastically. Those are all known instances of Navarro screwups.
What we didn't know, but should have guessed, is that Navarro is a living bloody terror to work with, something akin to putting mittens on a rabid wolverine, giving him his own office, and Just Seeing How That Goes. Navarro was so consistently abusive towards women on his staff, reports the Post, that then-Chief of Staff John Kelly ordered the White House Counsel's office to launch an investigation. Navarro only kept his job because that investigation concluded Navarro was a raging asshole to absolutely everyone.
Indeed, the Post's sources seem to indicate that every last person in the building hates him, as do Republican lawmakers, as do Trump's other allies. "Navarro is often hostile and overbearing in arguments, prone to attack anyone who disagrees with him as a representative of the 'deep state,'" reports the Post. And Navarro's one notable instance of being rightwarning that the emerging COVID-19 pandemic could become a severe threat in the United Stateswas apparently dismissed inside the White House precisely because Navarro was similarly frothy about other things, all the time.
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/2/1974490/-The-White-House-is-trying-hard-to-throw-Peter-Navarro-under-the-bus-Let-s-wish-them-well-on-that#read-more
spooky3
(34,467 posts)MontanaMama
(23,337 posts)in the current WH.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,818 posts)so he must be extraordinarily awful.
spooky3
(34,467 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)big plans to help Trump win re-election is a bust. Navarro is just the pinhead who positioned himself closes to the busway. He deserves everything bad that he gets.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,818 posts)even though the WH staff doesn't like him, because, being an asshole, Trump likes him a lot. https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/09/02/navarro-pandemic-coronavirus/
underpants
(182,868 posts)Thats how Kudlow got his job.