Trump brands John Bolton a ‘LIAR’ and says ‘everybody in the White House hated him’ after bombshell book extracts
PRESIDENT Donald Trump branded his ex-aide John Bolton a "liar" last night after a slew of bombshell claims in his new memoir.
Trump defended himself in an interview with , and said of his former national security adviser: "He is a liar ... everybody in the hated .”
Trump also hit out at Bolton in a separate interview on Wednesday with Fox News' Sean Hannity.
“He broke the law. He was a washed-up guy, I gave him a chance, he couldn’t get confirmed so I gave him a non-Senate confirmed position so I could put him there, see how he worked."
"I wasn’t very enamored, he went into the Middle East. He was one of the big guns for ‘Let’s go into Iraq.’
Bolton also alleged Trump asked why the was sanctioning China over its treatment of Uighurs.
suspects Uighurs, who are predominantly Muslim and culturally and ethnically distinct from the majority Han Chinese population, of harboring separatist religious tendencies.
In recent years, China has dramatically escalated its campaign against them by detaining more than one million people in internment camps and prisons, which it calls vocational training centers.
“He stressed the importance of farmers, and increased Chinese purchases of soybeans and wheat in the electoral outcome. I would print Trump’s exact words but the government’s prepublication review process has decided otherwise," Bolton writes.
Bolton's memoir, which news outlets received excerpts of before its official release, includes several claims about his time in the Trump administration.
He claimed that with North Korea.
"He is so full of s**t," the note said, according to an excerpt from Bolton's book on Wednesday.
A month after the meeting, Pompeo dismissed Trump's diplomatic efforts with North Korea and said there was "zero probability of success," Bolton wrote.
Bolton described several instances in which Trump expressed willingness to stop criminal investigations "to, in effect, give personal favors to dictators he liked," pointing to cases involving big firms in China and Turkey.
"The pattern looked like obstruction of justice as a way of life, which we couldn't accept," Bolton wrote, adding that he told Attorney General William Barr about his concerns.
Aside from his foreign policy blunders, Bolton's book claims that Trump didn't know basic world facts and geography.
Trump apparently didn't know that Britain is a nuclear power and wondered whether Finland, a Scandinavian country, is part of Russia, Bolton claimed.
The 71-year-old former attorney said intelligence briefings with the president were a waste of time because "much of the time was spent listening to Trump, rather than Trump listening to the briefers."