President-elect Donald Trump announced Wednesday that Peter Navarro will serve as senior counselor for trade and manufacturing during his next term in the White House.

Navarro, 75, will be tasked with helping “successfully advance and communicate Trump’s manufacturing, tariff and trade agendas,” Trump wrote in two Truth Social posts revealing the pick.

Navarro was previously a top trade adviser to Trump during his first term.

The selection came less than five months after Navarro was released from prison.

He was serving an approximately four-month sentence at a federal facility in Miami for defying a congressional subpoena by the House special committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection. He was convicted of two counts of contempt of Congress.

Just hours after his release on July 17, Navarro spoke at the Republican National Convention.

Trump said in Wednesday’s posts that Navarro had been “treated horribly by the Deep State, or whatever else you want to call it.”

Trump also praised Navarro as a “tenacious” advocate of “my two sacred rules: Buy an American, hire an American.”

Navarro has been a staunch supporter of Trump’s protectionist views, reiterating his support for tariffs and his reluctance to trade deals supported by so-called globalists.

After Trump lost the 2020 election to President Joe Biden, Navarro spread debunked claims that widespread voter fraud led to the race being stolen from Trump.