Former Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro made headlines earlier this year when he began serving a four-month prison sentence.

However, Navarro has not only gotten out of jail but has also been hired to serve in President-elect Donald Trump's new administration. 

Trump makes Navarro senior counselor for trade and manufacturing.

According to the Daily Mail, Trump announced in a social media post on Wednesday that the 75-year-old will be his senior counselor for trade and manufacturing.

Trump welcomes Peter Navarro back to the White House with top role after his prison stint for defying January 6 subpoena https://t.co/pVS3xfNP5M pic.twitter.com/DutgEqHmed

— Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) December 4, 2024

"I am pleased to announce that Peter Navarro, a man who was treated horribly by the Deep State, or whatever else you would like to call it, will serve as my senior counselor for trade and manufacturing," Trump declared.

"During my first term, few were more effective or tenacious than Peter in enforcing my two sacred rules, Buy American, Hire American," the president-elect went on to add.

Navarro: "They will come for you"

Fox News noted in July that Navarro was released from custody just prior to the Republican National Convention (RNC), which he later spoke at.

"Yes, indeed. This morning, I did walk out of a federal prison in Miami," Navarro was quoted as saying in his speech to convention delegates.

"Joe Biden and his department of injustice put me there. Tonight, I'm here with you in this beautiful city of Milwaukee," he continued.

"I got a very simple message for you: If they can come for me, if they can come for Donald Trump, be careful. They will come for you," Navarro asserted.

"If we don't control our government, their government will control us. If we don't control all three branches of our government — legislative, executive and judicial — their government will put some of us, like me and Steve Bannon, in prison," he said in reference to a fellow former Trump advisor.

Former adviser was held in contempt of Congress

Fox News noted how both Navarro and Bannon were held in contempt of Congress over their refusal to cooperate with the House committee tasked with investigating the January 6 riot on Capitol Hill.

Navarro maintained that his refusal stemmed from Trump having invoked executive privilege, a message that he reiterated during his speech.

"When I received that congressional subpoena, the second, I had an honest belief that the privilege had been invoked, and I was torn. Nobody in my position should be put in conflict between the legislative branch and the executive branch," Navarro recalled.