I don’t think he has the competence to carry out the job,” Bolton said during the ABC interview, which is scheduled to air in full Sunday. In a tweet early Thursday, Trump referred to “Wacko John Bolton” and said his book is “made up of lies & fake stories.”AD“Said all good about me, in print, until the day I fired him,” Trump wrote. In an interview Wednesday night on Fox News, Trump similarly dismissed Bolton, who was ousted from his job in September 2019, as a “washed-up guy.” (Trump says he fired Bolton; Bolton says he quit.) “My reaction is that John Bolton has discredited himself,” McEnany said on Fox News, citing past instances when Bolton praised Trump’s leadership. The following year, as Comey promoted a book that portrayed Trump in an unflattering light, the president called him a “weak and untruthful slimeball.”

Source: Washington Post June 18, 2020 11:16 UTC