Trump trade advisor Peter Navarro calls Steve Mnuchin the ‘Neville Chamberlain’ of his White House for setting up meeting with China’s Vice-Premier Liu He while the ‘Wuhan virus was red hot’
- Navarro criticized two people by comparing them to Chamberlain Tuesday
- One of them was Trump's Treasury Secretary, who he reportedly 'cursed' out in 2018 over anger at being shut out of US economic talks with China
- The other was Joe Biden, who he lambasted over his meeting with Xi Jinping
- Chamberlain was the UK's prime minister at the start of World War II and is known for his disastrous policy of appeasement in dealing with Hitler
Donald Trump's White House trade advisor Peter Navarro attacked his old colleague Steve Mnuchin as the 'Neville Chamberlain' of the Trump administration in a Tuesday evening interview.
Navarro appeared on Newsmax last night where he discussed US relations with China in front of a screen displaying a photo of Trump shaking hands with China Vice Premier Liu He and surrounded by his economic team.
He accused Mnuchin of 'setting up' the meeting - which was barely over a week before the city of Wuhan was locked down over spiraling COVID-19 cases that hadn't yet impacted the globe.
'This is January 15, 2020,' the trade advisor said while gesturing to the photo.
'Now keep in mind that every one of these Chinese guys know that there's a Wuhan virus hot on the loose and they may infected,' Navarro wildly claimed.
He commented on how close they were positioned to White House officials in the photo.
'This guy's the ambassador to China - he was known affectionately inside the White House as the guy who gave a panda bear to congressman that had a listening device on it,' Navarro continued.
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Peter Navarro calls Steven Mnuchin the "Neville Chamberlain of our time" while going all Pepe Silvia over a Jan. 2020 meeting between Trump and Chinese officials. pic.twitter.com/OFwFeIeuaR
Navarro gave his interview in front of a blown-up photo of a January 15, 2020 White House meeting between US and Chinese officials
He eventually arrived at Trump's Treasury Secretary.
'And of course Steve Mnuchin was the guy who set the whole thing up, he was the Neville Chamberlain of our time,' Navarro said.
Chamberlain served as the United Kingdom's prime minister at the beginning of World War II and is widely known for his ill-conceived appeasement policy in dealing with Adolf Hitler.
Navarro went on to criticize President Joe Biden for failing to hold China accountable and failing to hold up the 'skinny deal' Trump struck in 2020.
Navarro compared Mnuchin to Neville Chamberlain, the UK prime minister at the start of World War II known for his disastrous appeasement policy when dealing with Nazi Germany
'Skinny deal is as dead as Biden's approval rating,' the former advisor quipped.
That January, the US and China reached an interim trade deal to reduce tariff tensions. China agreed to buy massive amounts of US products.
But the deal would up being a failure when Chinese imports fell far short of their expected target.
It's not the first time Trump's trade advisor had harsh words for Mnuchin over China.
In 2018 it was reported that Navarro 'cursed' at the former Treasury Secretary and 'fumed about being shut out of the talks' with the growing economic power.
Earlier on Tuesday Navarro appeared in a separate segment on Newsmax - where he again compared government officials to the UK's infamous former leader.
Speaking about Biden's summit with Chinese President Xi yesterday afternoon, Navarro commented that it was 'truly a Neville Chamberlain appeasement moment.'
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