#Trump advisor Peter Navarro says John Bolton’s memoir is like ‘revenge porn’

John Bolton’s upcoming White House tell-all is political “revenge porn,” President Trump’s trade adviser Peter Navarro said Thursday, blasting the hawkish Bolton as a power-hungry “warlord” now out to make a buck.

“This is deep swamp revenge porn,” Navarro told Fox News of Bolton’s “The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir,” set for release on June 23 — unless the federal government succeeds in its bid to block it.

“He’s basically throwing grenades at this administration to make money with [publisher] Simon & Schuster,” added Navarro, mocking the adviser-turned-author as “Big Lie Bolton” and “Book Deal Bolton.”

Navarro portrayed Bolton — who served as Trump’s national security adviser between April 2018 and September 2019 — as an ambitious war hawk who set himself apart at the White House to plot overthrows of foreign governments.

“The minute he got in here, what he did … is set up the national security office as an autonomous zone with him literally as the warlord,” said Navarro, using terms similar to those used to refer to protesters’ recent occupation of a stretch of Seattle.

“He [Trump] does not want to get this country into foreign wars,” said Navarro. “And that’s what John Bolton doesn’t like.

“John Bolton wants to send the American Army all over the world to topple people in Venezuela and stay in Afghanistan, stay in Iraq.”

Navarro claimed that Bolton arrived to one tense meeting over unrest in Venezuela as though it were a party.

“I was in a staff meeting one time, [and] he walked in and he was absolutely giddy at the prospect of a coup in Venezuela,” Navarro told Fox. “It was, like, weird. And I’m thinking to myself, ‘Wait a minute, this is a serious, serious matter and he’s giddy.’”

“There’s something wrong with that dude.”

Excerpts from Bolton’s memoir reveal a trove of purported anecdotes from his time in the White House, many of them unflattering toward the president.

Among the claims was that during the 2019 G-20 Summit in Osaka, Japan, Trump beseeched Chinese President Xi Jinping to bolster his re-election prospects by buying American crops.

During the same conversation, Trump also encouraged China’s practice of forcing the Uighur people — an ethnic minority in the country — into camps, Bolton writes.

“I was at that dinner,” said Navarro. “He [Bolton] was sitting right beside me. That tale he told? I didn’t hear that tale.”

Navarro didn’t specify which part of the conversation he was disputing, or whether it was both claims.

“This is not right what he’s doing,” said Navarro of Bolton. “This is not comporting with the tradition of people serving in administrations.”

Trump has vocally opposed the release of Bolton’s book, and slammed him as a “liar.”