White House adviser Peter Navarro continued his reputation for saying scandalous things on Sunday, claiming that “the Lord” made executive orders to cut partisanship and calling Donald Trump the “hardest working president in history” when he was confronted about Trump’s last golf week.
Amid talks on coronavirus relief among Democrats, Republicans, and the White House, the president this weekend released a series of executive actions and memos from his New Jersey golf club. The potentially illegal mandate Trump signed reduces the unemployment bonus to $ 400 a week, requires states to fund 25 percent, provinces take a tax break, and calls for an ongoing moratorium on eviction.
Appears on NBC News’ Meet the Press to defend the president’s orders, Navarro was asked by host Chuck Todd if he was sure the orders would be legally controlled because Congress has the department with budgetary powers.
‘Well, one of the things I learned here, Chuck, at the White House that does a lot of work on executive orders, is what we have to do with the legal authorities, and I’m sure every single one of them those orders that have been deleted by the law firm will come up, ”Navarro explained, adding that the orders deliberately included non-decisive language.
The Trump aide then stepped in and blamed the stagnant negotiations at the feet of Democrats, taking personal potshots of Second Chamber member Nancy Pelosi, while suggesting Democrats deliberately want a package for coronavirus to fail.
“The question the president has is whether the Democrats are really honest when they come to the table, and I’m not sure,” he whispered. “It does not help if Speaker Pelosi goes out after every day, with her scarves flying and just the madness out of our slaughter for cruel people.”
Todd, meanwhile, followed up by pressing Navarro on the president’s own role in the failed negotiations.
‘Where’s the president? Why was he at his golf club all weekend? Todd asked him out loud. ‘Why is he not negotiating? Look, I understand that you guys do not like each other, that Nancy Pelosi and the president – where is he? Why is he not involved? ”
“You have to understand that this is the hardest-working president in history,” Navarro recalled. “He works 24/7.”
After that little pursuit, Navarro suggested that the real problem is ‘the swamp’ in Washington, before he was praised for executive orders – a tool the president had previously fired when used by his predecessor.
“The Lord and the Founding Fathers made executive orders because of partisan bickering and divided government,” Navarro exclaimed. “That’s what we have here, but the president has taken action.”
“His constituency is mainstream Republicans and blue-collar Democrats and independents who are sick and tired of the swamp and he reached out and he took action,” he added. ‘He did not need to – he could just let it go, and he did not. He took action, action, action and action. ”
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