Episode 328: Peter Navarro on In Trump Time
Newt's World
Gingrich 360
4.6 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2021
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Newt talks with Peter Navarro who served as Assistant to the President and Director of the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy at the White House during the Trump Administration. His new book: In Trump Time: A Journal of America’s Plague Year details a behind-the-scenes account of the inner workings of the White House grappling with one of America’s worst and most divisive crises in history, the global pandemic.
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| 0:34.7 | On this episode of Newt's World, my guest today is Peter Navarro. He has a remarkable career. |
| 0:41.6 | He holds a PhD in economics from Harvard University. He was professor and meritorious of economics |
| 0:46.8 | in public policy at the University of California Irvine for more than 20 years. He served as assistant |
| 0:53.4 | to the president and director of the office of trade and manufacturing policy at the White House |
| 0:59.0 | during the Trump administration. He is the author of numerous books, including a China trilogy, |
| 1:04.9 | the coming China Wars in 2006, death by China in 2011, and Crouching Tiger in 2015. But the White |
| 1:14.5 | House, Dr. Navarro advised President Trump on policies to increase economic growth, |
| 1:20.8 | decrease trade deficits, and strengthen America's defense industrial base. He produced three volumes |
| 1:28.2 | of the Navarro report in his personal capacity to shed light on potentially illegal activity |
| 1:34.6 | that may have occurred during the 2020 presidential election. But he's here today to talk about his |
| 1:41.0 | new book, In Trump Time, A Journal of America's Play Gear. And I'm really pleased to welcome. |
| 1:58.5 | Peter, you were right there in the middle of it, and I know it's not something that you thought |
| 2:02.9 | you'd be doing, although given your interest in China, the fact that this disease came out of Wuhan, |
| 2:08.1 | who's sort of an appropriate part of everything you've warned us about, tell me if you would, |
| 2:13.0 | how did you initially come to the conclusion going all the way back to your China trilogy, |
| 2:19.1 | that China would have the kind of impact it's having, and did you really see it coming as |
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