Peter Navarro is pushing negotiators to discuss reworking country’s boundaries, The Telegraph can reveal

A top White House official has threatened to redraw the Canadian border amid Donald Trump’s ambition to turn the country in America’s “51st state”.

Peter Navarro, one of Donald Trump’s closest advisers, is pushing US negotiators to discuss reworking the border with their Canadian counterparts, The Telegraph can reveal.

“Navarro recommended revising the Canada-US border, which is just crazy and dangerous,” a source close to negotiations told The Telegraph.

  • WalnutLum@lemmy.ml
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    6 hours ago

    From the Peter Navarro story linked:

    According to Mr Navarro’s 2001 book, If It’s Raining in Brazil, Buy Starbucks, Vara was a captain in a reserve unit during the Gulf War as well as a doctoral student in economics at Harvard University in the US.

    Are the freakonomics guys in the government yet?

    • SeaJ@lemm.ee
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      2 hours ago

      Dubner and Leavitt are waaaay too qualified to be in this administration.