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Trade guru Navarro throws elbows for Trump on virus supplies

by Associated Press
| April 15, 2020 11:03 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Peter Navarro’s eagerness to confront, attack and be, as one former associate put it, “a real jerk to people” didn’t serve him well as a political candidate in the 1990s. But it fits what President Donald Trump was looking for to muscle companies to make critical supplies needed to fight the coronavirus.

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