He likes nothing more than pitting people against each other.Fresh off their heated, “fuck”-encrusted shouting match in China, tensions and policy fissures between Donald Trump advisers Steve Mnuchin and Peter Navarro are at an all-time high, with the former believing the latter to be a crank and a recurring nuisance, and the latter accusing the former of trade capitulation akin to Nazi appeasement, according to sources who’ve spoken with both men.
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Recently, the pair have fought over Trump’s declared openness to relaxing punitive measures on Chinese electronics firm ZTE Technologies—measures that were supposed to penalize ZTE for violating U.S. sanctions on Iran and other countries. Relatedly, Navarro believes the trade framework Mnuchin has been negotiating with Chinese government officials will inevitably undermine the president’s “America First” promises.
As for Mnuchin’s positions, Navarro has—according to multiple sources who spoke to The Daily Beast on the condition of anonymity—privately nicknamed Mnuchin “Neville Chamberlain” (in reference to the Conservative British prime minister famous for his foreign policy of appeasement toward Nazi Germany and Adolf Hitler) and likened the economic threat from China to that of fascist dictator Hitler.
Mnuchin is sympathetic to free trade and internationalist principles, much like former top Trump economic adviser Gary Cohn—another Trumpworld figure with whom Navarro ideologically and personally clashed, and believed was an even bigger, savvier “globalist” danger than Mnuchin.
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And Trump has said he wants both sides represented at the table.
Daily Beast
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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