Helpful context on Peter Navarro:

- Navarro got his PhD for research into public utilities. He has never studied trade or medicine.
- He was an unexceptional academic economist in the 1980s and 1990s.
- He has not done academic economics since the 1990s.

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- He ran for mayor of San Diego and for Congress in remarkably unsuccessful campaigns.
- He then shifted to selling get-rich-quick books, but didn't do very well.
- He then adopted an extreme anti-China stance and published several books and made documentaries.

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- His China work is self-revealing. As one reviewer said, "“the equivalent of a raving street-corner derelict." Just read a sentence or two or watch a minute of a doc.
- He is an admitted liar. He's proud of it.
- He is an astonishingly unpleasant person, even in this WH.

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- Every single day, he makes arguments against China.
- So, the fact that--on one day--he made an argument that included China and Coronavirus is not surprising.

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