{"id":60093,"date":"2020-06-20T13:24:35","date_gmt":"2020-06-20T13:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=60093"},"modified":"2020-06-20T13:24:35","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T13:24:35","slug":"pompeo-denounces-lies-by-traitor-bolton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=60093","title":{"rendered":"Pompeo denounces ‘lies’ by ‘traitor’ Bolton"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"International Desk: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo late Thursday ripped into John Bolton for his explosive memoir about working for President Donald Trump, calling the former national security advisor a “traitor.”<\/p>\n

“John Bolton is spreading a number of lies, fully-spun half-truths and outright falsehoods,” Pompeo said in a statement.<\/p>\n

“It is both sad and dangerous that John Bolton's final public role is that of a traitor who damaged America by violating his sacred trust with its people.”<\/p>\n

“To our friends around the world: you know that President Trump's America is a force for good in the world.”<\/p>\n

Pompeo said he had not yet read the book, “The Room Where It Happened,” which the Trump administration is trying to block from publication.<\/p>\n

But according to excerpts published by major newspapers, Bolton said that Pompeo — one of the rare aides never to clash publicly with Trump — disparaged him in private.<\/p>\n

According to The New York Times, Bolton writes that he received a note from Pompeo during Trump's historic first meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore, saying of the president, “He is so full of shit.”<\/p>\n

Pompeo traveled four times to North Korea in 2018 to jumpstart diplomacy for Trump, who has hailed his own efforts as worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize.<\/p>\n

But Bolton wrote that Pompeo, a month after the Singapore summit in June 2018, dismissed Trump's North Korea diplomacy, saying it had “zero probability of success,” according to the Times report.<\/p>\n

Bolton is well-known for his hawkish views on North Korea and left in September shortly after Trump, accompanied by Pompeo, again met Kim on the Demilitarized Zone in Korea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

International Desk: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo late Thursday ripped into John Bolton for his explosive memoir about working for President Donald Trump, calling the former national security advisor a “traitor.” “John Bolton is spreading a number of lies, fully-spun half-truths and outright falsehoods,” Pompeo said in a statement. “It is both sad and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":60094,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,5,14],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n