Navarro also said that he’d been trying to acquire more protective gear like masks, critiquing the administration’s pace. If the covid-19 crisis quickly recedes, the only thing we will have been guilty of is prudence,” Navarro wrote to the president. At the time, there were about 100 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the United States and just two deaths linked to the outbreak. President Trump on April 7 said he didn’t see White House trade adviser Peter Navarro’s January memo on the coronavirus but said he still had confidence in him. (The Washington Post)But after Trump ignored Navarro’s recommendations, the trade adviser embarked on his own strategy to acquire supplies with little oversight, Democrats said.

Source: Washington Post March 31, 2021 12:31 UTC