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Trump picks Navarro to be senior counselor for trade and manufacturing

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WASHINGTON, Dec 4 (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Wednesday he had picked Peter Navarro to be senior counselor for trade and manufacturing.

Navarro served as head of a newly created position - director of the White House National Trade Council - in the first Trump administration.

"During my First Term, few were more effective or tenacious than Peter in enforcing my two sacred rules, Buy American, Hire American," Trump said in a Truth Social post announcing the nomination.

Navarro was sentenced in January to four months in prison after being found guilty of two misdemeanor counts of contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena from a committee probing the Jan. 6, 2021 U.S. Capitol attack by Trump supporters.

Reporting by Doina Chiacu, Katharine Jackson; Editing by Caitlin Webber and David Ljunggren

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