Peter Navarro

Peter Navarro holds a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard. He is one of only three senior White House officials to serve with Donald Trump from the 2016 campaign to the end of President Trump’s first term.

Mr. Navarro was the West Wing’s chief China Hawk and manufacturing czar. He served as Director of the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy and, during the pandemic, Defense Production Act Policy Coordinator.

His Communist China trilogy includes The Coming China Wars (2006), Death By China (2011), and Crouching Tiger (2015). His White House memoirs include In Trump Time and Taking Back Trump’s America. His top-rated Taking Back Trump’s America podcast appears on Apple Podcasts or Google Podcasts. Sign up for his substack at http://peternavarro.substack.com. He can be reached at takingbacktrumpsamerica@gmail.com.

Columns by Peter Navarro

Stop the crucifixion of Mike Lindell

The crucifixion of MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell by "woke" corporatists represents a new and dangerous form of uncivil warfare that threatens to further divide our nation even as it desecrates the First Amendment. Published October 3, 2023

‘Bidenomics’ fiscal shock: Managing America’s staggering debt

The debate over a debt limit deal now raging in Congress offers the last possible exit ramp for future American prosperity. Published September 26, 2023

Trump guilty until proven innocent: Lessons from a D.C. courtroom

What can former President Donald Trump learn from my conviction for a crime I never should have been prosecuted for? Published September 19, 2023

Huawei takes a big bite out of Tim Cook’s rotten Apple

China's national telecom champion, Huawei, is also Beijing's most accomplished intellectual property thief. Today, Huawei is also the tip of a Chinese spear about to skewer Apple and its CEO, Tim Cook. Published September 12, 2023

Coming to a Supreme Court near you: Executive privilege on trial

This week, I go on trial for an alleged crime that no senior White House official has ever been charged with. Before the first juror is seated, I have been stripped of virtually every possible defense. Published September 5, 2023

Crippling costs and corrosive effects of Democrats’ lawfare on Trump and his advisers

Since Donald Trump's come-from-behind victory over the Clinton machine in 2016, Democrat strategists have waged unrelenting lawfare against the former president and his advisers. Published August 29, 2023

U.S. v. Garland, Smith, Willis and Bragg: The indictment a grand jury should return

Attorney General Merrick Garland, special prosecutor Jack Smith, Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, did knowingly combine, conspire, confederate and agree with co-conspirators known and unknown to the Grand Jury. Published August 22, 2023

Why Trump may tell debate host Fox News and RINO-infested RNC to go pound sand

To debate or not to debate in the first Republican presidential primary event on Aug. 23 in Milwaukee. That is the question former President Donald Trump will answer soon. Published August 15, 2023

Indict the Biden crime family, not Trump

President Biden's ultra-weaponized Department of Justice asserts that Donald Trump committed fraud for using the Electoral Count Act of 1887 to object to a stolen 2020 election. In fact, the act was created exactly for such a purpose. Published August 8, 2023

When the Never Trump industry profits, America loses

Donald Trump will go down in history as one of America's most successful entrepreneurs. Published August 1, 2023

End Democrats starting a second civil war before it begins

Roughly half of Republicans and over one-third of Democrats believe our country is on the brink of civil war. If such an unthinkable war breaks out, it will be the Democrats' fault. Published July 25, 2023

China tracks, traces its enemies with Orwellian digital currency assault

The U.S. dollar as the world's reserve currency and the SWIFT global money transfer system represent the twin pillars of a transparent international financial system. Published July 18, 2023

‘Bidenomics’ equals stagflation, bleak American future

"Bidenomics" equals stagflation. That's America's sober economic reality after more than 2 1/2 years of the Biden presidency.. Published July 11, 2023

MAGA Declaration of Independence: Taking on the ‘woke’ partisan mob

Whenever any form of government becomes destructive, it is the duty of each of us in the American nation to alter that government. Published July 4, 2023

Today’s pollsters cannot be trusted to deliver accurate, unbiased results

Beware of pollsters bearing pro-Biden or pro-DeSantis gifts. I base this conclusion on two recent polls that (once again) reveal a deeply biased and partisan pollster swamp. Published June 27, 2023

‘Only the Dead,’ an entertaining grassroots MAGA primer

Republican voters clearly embrace Make America Great Again principles, including reshoring U.S. factories, securing borders, strategic energy dominance, an end to endless wars, draining the swamp in Washington, and fair elections. Published June 20, 2023