Peter Navarro Predicts ‘Mass Deportations’ in Second Trump Term in Interview – Conducted From Federal Prison

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Peter Navarro, serving a four-month sentence in federal prison for refusing to comply with a congressional subpoena related to the January 6 investigation, conducted a jailhouse interview with Semafor all about what would happen during former President Donald Trump’s second term.

Semafor’s Gina Chon conversed with Navarro via email from “the prison’s law library, where he works.” His focus was Trump’s economic policy, which included the nearly immediate ouster of Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. However, he has a more detailed plan outlined in the book he’s been writing while serving time in the minimum-security Miami prison. Navarro told Chon: “The New MAGA Deal documents 100 actions in 100 days.”

An excerpt from their conversation reveals Navarro’s plans related to immigration:

Chon: What didn’t get done in the last term that would be back on the table?

Navarro: One of the biggest pieces of unfinished Trump business is to solidify Buy American, Hire American government procurement, and reshore our private sector supply chains and manufacturing back to US soil. We are dangerously vulnerable to foreign coercion in everything from defense applications and tech, to pharmaceuticals.

Trump will also quickly seal the border and begin mass deportations. [President Joe Biden] has imported a wave of crime and terrorism along with an uneducated mass that drives down wages of Black, brown, and blue-collar Americans. Blacks and Hispanics, particularly males in the workforce, are flocking to Trump in droves.

There are also plans for Powell and JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon:

Chon: What are the plans for the Fed and current Chair Jay Powell?

Navarro: Powell was [former Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin’s] folly — Powell raised rates too fast under Trump and choked off growth. To keep his job, Powell then raised rates too slowly to contain inflation under Biden. My guess is that this punctilious non-economist will be gone in a hundred days one way or the other. Former Council of Economic Advisers Chair Kevin Hassett would be a logical replacement; former CEA Chair Tyler Goodspeed would be a bold choice.

Chon: Is there a place for someone like JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon in a Trump administration?

Navarro: I’m sure if Jamie raises $100 million for Trump 2024 and doesn’t hedge his Biden bet, there may be an ambassadorship somewhere in Asia where JPMorgan helped offshore millions of American jobs.

Navarro served under Trump as director of the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy and remains loyal to the ex-president. He also told Chon that he hopes to attend the Republican National Convention in July if his sentence ends in time — at which point he will release his book.