Navarro blasts Biden, accuses ex-VP of spending Obama years 'toadying up and kowtowing' to China

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Peter Navarro says President Trump can rebuild US economy, discusses China's crackdown on Hong Kong

White House trade adviser Peter Navarro joins Martha MacCallum on 'The Story.'

White House trade adviser Peter Navarro accused Joe Biden Tuesday of spending his entire tenure as Barack Obama's vice president "toadying up and kowtowing to the Chinese" in response to the Biden campaign's claims President Trump's actions fueled the economic crisis initially caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

"To Brother Joe, I guess he forgot the eight years he was toadying up and kowtowing to the Chinese," Navarro told "The Story," "and of course he is not going to basically hold China accountable for this pandemic."

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"This is what astonishes me," Navarro added, "the evidence is overwhelming that the Chinese Communist Party foisted this pandemic on the world, destroyed trillions of dollars of wealth and they killed close to 100,000 Americans so far."

Turning to the economy, Navarro told host Martha MacCallum that he expected a "steady trend upward" as states reopen more and more of their economies throughout the summer.

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"What this president cares about and what I care about is not Wall Street, it's Main Street," he said. "What I see, basically, as we open up this economy, we are going to have to do it gradually because of the social distancing, but we are going to be doing that.

"I think that what matters here are trends," Navarro concluded. "We basically crashed to a stop and now I think what you are going to see is a steady trend upward."

The trade adviser emphasized that a key part of any long-term recovry must be a systematic return of manufacturing to American shores.