[NYP] Secretary of State Mike Pompeo zeroed in on John Bolton’s credibility in recent interviews, describing the former national security adviser as someone who was routinely shut out of White House meetings because he leaked, lied or stretched the truth about what was discussed.
“I haven’t read the book in its entirety, but the excerpts I’ve seen, there’s lots of falsehoods, there’s lot of lies contained there,” Pompeo said in an interview Monday with Fox News’ Sean Hannity.
“The president and others, myself included, had to cut him out of meetings because he was leaking or he’d twist things or he’d lie,” he said. “It was a really difficult situation where John Bolton thought he was more important than the president of the United States and the American people.”
In an interview on Hugh Hewitt’s radio show on Tuesday, Pompeo took aim at the title of the White House memoir, “The Room Where It Happened,” and the insider access Bolton claimed to enjoy during his 17 months in the administration. |