Ex-Trump adviser Peter Navarro says he is on a crusade against Harris, highlights Trump successes

Former Trump adviser Peter Navarro said he is on a crusade against Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris while praising former President Donald Trump's policies from four years ago. 

"I'm on a crusade here...a mission," Navarro said on a "Just the News, No Noise" special with Association of Mature American Citizens (AMAC). "I do not want anybody to ever call Kamala Harris by only her first name again. She is not a soccer star. It's a term of somewhat endearment when it should be one of ridicule."

He said using her first name alone only fuels her campaign. "You can use some of her nicknames: Kamaflation, Kamaliar [and] Kamalameleon," Navarro added. 

With the election being less than two months away, both the Harris and Trump campaigns have heated up attacks against one another, as well as advocating for their policies for the next administration. 

Navarro advised the Trump campaign to focus on statistics for the upcoming election since people are paying more for necessities than they did four years ago. 

"One single statistic...if you look at the price of oil, it's about... depending on the market day....30 to 40 to 50% higher on average over the Biden-Harris administration than it was during the Trump administration," he said. 

A big issue that Trump has been running on is energy independence. He said if elected in 2024, he would unleash a "pro-American energy policy at long last."

He has advocated for using energy resources in America instead of getting them from other countries. 

"Nobody has more liquid gold under their feet than the United States of America," Trump said in a 2023 speech. "And we will use it and profit from it and live with it. And we will be rich again and we will be happy again. And we will be proud again."

Navarro said that energy independence would bring inflation down. "What Trump did when he was in office for those four years was take this country for the first time in a century to become energy independent, and he did that and he kept oil prices down once we got to be energy independent," he said. A March Gallup poll showed that more than 55% of Americans worry “a great deal” about inflation, and it is still an election hot button issue.

While some have been critical of Trump's proposal to put tariffs on China, Navarro says it's a good strategy.

In contrast to more traditional Republicans, Trump has advocated for a protectionist approach to trade policy and for stimulating and repatriating manufacturing jobs in defiance of a conventional free trade approach. "We had schedules of tariffs on everything," Navarro said. "We had to choose how much to do. And of course, the usual suspects were accusing us of going to cause inflation and consumers are going to bear the burden."

He said that a recession as a result of tariffs during the Trump administration never came as the media predicted it would. 

"China absorbs all the cost of the tariffs," he said. "All it does is it....because they're so dependent on their exports to keep their economy afloat, they just lower the prices."