discussed. “No way, no how,” Trump said. “This was on the campaign. We’re not backing off this. We’re signing it. Draw it up.” He signed the papers to formally withdraw on January 23, the first full weekday of his presidency. “The Trump trade agenda does indeed remain severely hobbled by political forces within the West Wing,” Peter Navarro, the White House assistant heading the National Trade Council, wrote in an Eyes Only two-page memo to the president and Chief of Staff Priebus on March 27, 2017. Navarro, who agreed with Trump’s view that trade deficits
