Peter Navarro, a senior White House trade adviser, decided to suspend a 90-day moratorium on President Trump’s decision to suspend a 90-day moratorium on a country-specific tariff.
“In a straightforward way, are you in the room with the president when he makes this decision?” Hunter asked CNN’s “Arena”
“So-this is a wrong question,” Navarro replied. “Am I part of the process?”
“Yes – are you in the room?” Hunter responded, talking to Navarro.
“Wait,” Navarro said.
“Are you in the room?” Hunter pressed again.
Navarro replied: “This is…you don’t understand how this works.” “You don’t have to be in the room…”
“Well, with President Trump actually doing this often,” Hunter cuts in.
Navarro replied that he never talked about it-I went to jail for it. I never talk about what happened there. “What happens to the oval before being submerged by Hunter…” he added.
On Thursday, President Trump threatened to re-suspend amid a 90-day pause if countries have not reached a deal with his administration before that.
“If we can’t make the deal we want to make, or the deal we have to make, or that’s good for both parties – it has to be good for both parties – then we’re back to who we are.”
Before the pause, global markets faced strong instability and economic anxiety, and the whole world was growing.
Several Democrats have since called for a moral investigation into potential conflicts of interest for Trump administration officials to suspend information on 90-day tariffs, raising concerns over insider trading.
When pressured by Hunt, Navarro calls it “stretch” and “stupid”.
When he was directly asked by Hunt whether he had traded any stocks in the “last 48 hours” or if there was an insider or possibility of improper trading within the government, Navarro refuted the idea.
He replied, “No, once I get in here, I won’t trade stocks.”
The mountain has been contacted by the White House for comment.