White House trade adviser Peter Navarro on Sunday dismissed allegations about President Trump’s actions made by John Bolton in the former White House national security adviser’s forthcoming memoir.
“I was in those rooms, too” Navarro said on CNN’s “State of the Union,” referencing the title of Bolton’s memoir, “The Room Where It Happened.”
“Whatever Bolton is saying about China is just silly, because this president has been the toughest president on China of any American president ever,” Navarro added.
In the book, Bolton alleges Trump solicited Chinese President Xi Jinping’s help in winning reelection.
CNN’s Jake Tapper pressed Navarro on his comment, asking him point blank if Trump solicited Xi’s help in the November election.
Navarro said that is not a yes or no question.
“I never heard that, I was in the room,” Navarro added.
Navarro also said that Bolton put “highly classified information sprinkled through a very large book in order to earn a profit.
He said Bolton risks a “jail sentence” and “has to pay a price” for putting the nation’s security at risk over his book.
A federal judge on Saturday denied a Trump administration request to block Bolton’s book from being published.