Secretary of State Mike Pompeo zeroed in on John Bolton’s credibility in new interviews, describing the former national protection adviser as someone who was routinely shut out of White House conferences for the reason that he leaked, lied or stretched the fact about what was talked over.

“I haven’t read the ebook in its entirety, but the excerpts I’ve viewed, there’s lots of falsehoods, there is great deal of lies contained there,” Pompeo said in an job interview Monday with Fox News’ Sean Hannity.

“The president and other people, myself incorporated, had to slash him out of conferences simply because he was leaking or he’d twist matters or he’d lie,” he said. “It was a truly difficult predicament where John Bolton thought he was much more significant than the president of the United States and the American persons.”

In an interview on Hugh Hewitt’s radio exhibit on Tuesday, Pompeo took intention at the title of the White Property memoir, “The Room In which It Happened,” and the insider obtain Bolton claimed to delight in all through his 17 months in the administration.

“I was in the space, much too. I was present for those people. I recall them extremely in different ways. These are matters that have been either thoroughly spun or are, frankly, just lies that never mirror what truly happened there,” Pompeo advised Hewitt.

“The fact is he was these kinds of a challenging particular person and leaked so substantially information, even whilst he was continue to in business, that it was often the scenario that he wasn’t a participant in the meetings simply because we all had come to see that there was a real danger that this info would conclude up in locations it should not have,” the country’s top rated diplomat stated.

In an interview with ABC News, Bolton explained the president’s procedures jeopardize nationwide stability.

“The most significant fear I have is that his policymaking is so incoherent, so unfocused, so unstructured, so wrapped about his very own own political fortunes, that problems are becoming manufactured that will have grave effects for the nationwide stability of the United States,” he mentioned.

But Pompeo defended Trump in the Hannity interview.

“This president’s international policy is anything that John Bolton should have been very pleased of, and in its place, he stepped away in a way that fundamentally misrepresents what we have performed,” he claimed.

Creating on the administration’s assert that Bolton has incorporated labeled details in his tome, which was released on Tuesday, Pompeo in comparison him to Edward Snowden – the previous CIA contractor who leaked categorised information and facts from the National Security Company.

“The information and facts he has launched puts criminal liability squarely on him.  We all noticed what is occurred when folks leak classified info like Edward Snowden. What John Bolton did right here is not dissimilar from that,” he explained.  “And though we’ll leave open up for the Justice Section to consider its action, this variety of details finding out, it presents true possibility and authentic hurt to the United States of America.”

The White Residence tried to block publication of the book on these grounds but a federal judge ruled versus it past week, but noted that Bolton appeared not to have completed the government’s overview of labeled material.