Before coming to the White House, Navarro was a west coast academic economist with views on trade far outside the American mainstream and a failed political career behind him, have lost five elections and won none in his adoptive home town of San Diego.His former campaign adviser, Larry Remer, said: “I wouldn’t trust him to go out to get lunch and come back with everybody’s sandwich and drink order correctly. I don’t know how he could be put in charge of logistics. A 'Green' activist turned China hawk, he sharesTrump's brittle traits and wrote books quoting ‘expert’ who turned out to be fictitious version of himself. “On one level it’s amusing but on another level, it’s really dangerous,” added Remer, a San Diego political consultant."