Former Trump Adviser Peter Navarro: Learn From Past Mistakes to Win Back the White House

As former president Donald Trump prepares to win the White House a second time, he now understands the importance of appointing loyal personnel who will not obstruct his agenda, as often happened during his first term, says former Trump adviser Peter Navarro.

Navarro said while he expects that a second Trump term “will not be afflicted by that,” he is convinced that “part of making sure that happens is getting out the information about what went wrong sometimes in [the] West Wing.”

The day after Trump won the 2016 presidential election, a decision was made “to invite the RINO [Republicans In Name Only] Republicans into the Trump tents,” Navarro said on EpochTV’s “Crossroads” program on Sept. 23.

Navarro called this “a very bad decision” and added that Steve Bannon, CEO of Trump’s 2016 campaign and his later chief strategist, dubbed Trump’s alliance with establishment RINOs the “the original sin” of the Trump administration.

”And that set in motion, particularly in the early part of the administration, a set of really bad choices for both the cabinet and the West Wing.”

To give an example, Navarro said that when working on Trump’s trade tariff policies, he often had to contend with opposition from White House officials who previously helped to finance offshoring to China.

“RINOs in the Trump administration embraced three out of four points of Navarro’s economic growth policy: tax cuts, deregulation, and an expansion of the petroleum sector in a way that would make the United States energy independent,” Navarro wrote in his recently released book “Taking Back Trump’s America: Why We Lost the White House and How We’ll Win It Back.”

However, those establishment RINOs were “vehemently opposed to any kind of trade actions that would prevent their corporate donors from offshoring American jobs,” Navarro wrote.

Despite these challenges, “Trump