Peter Navarro: Bolton's Book Is 'Deep Swamp Revenge Porn'

John Bolton's tell-all memoir of his days in the White House is nothing but "deep swamp revenge porn" from a person who has been fired from two different presidential administrations, White House Trade Adviser Peter Navarro said Thursday. 

"The guy got fired because he didn't obey the chain of command because he was out of touch with what President Donald J. Trump stands for in terms of foreign policy," Navarro said on Fox News' "America's Newsroom" about the former national security adviser's book. "He was one of the worst administrators that I've seen pass through here in three-and-a-half years."

Navarro explained that Bolton "literally begged" Trump to become the National Security Adviser, but once that happened, "what he did in that building right over there was set up the National Security office with an autonomous zone with him literally as the warlord."

But on "big issues like China, he had nothing to do with it and didn't want anything to do with it," said Navarro, debunking the claims Bolton has made about Trump and China's Xi Jinping. 

"He spent a lot of time trying to engineer coups in places like Venezuela," claimed Navarro. "He was good at acquiring turf within the NSC, but he had no clue about what to actually do with it."

Navarro also said that he sat beside Bolton at the G-20 leaders' dinner in Osaka, Japan, where Bolton claims Trump appealed for Xi's help in winning a second term in office.

"That tale he told, I didn't hear that tale," said Navarro. "I kind of wonder what his thing is other than making money with Simon and Schuster and helping Xi and (Vladimir) Putin weaken this administration?"

Navarro also recalled a time when Bolton was "giddy" with the prospect of a coup in Venezuela. 

"He comes in here with his seersucker summer suits and his big mustache," said Navarro. "I think to myself, wait a minute. This is a serious, serious matter and he is giddy. There's something wrong with that dude."

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