John Bolton offered a brutal assessment Friday of Sebastian Gorka, Donald Trump ’s controversial pick as a deputy assistant to the president and the senior director for counterterrorism. “Well, Sebastian Gorka is a con man,” said Bolton, a former national security adviser under Trump, in an interview with CNN ’s Kaitlan Collins.

Donald Trump's former national security advisor John Bolton has described Sebastian Gorka, who the incoming commander-in-chief has nominated as deputy assistant to the president and senior director for counterterrorism, as a "con man" who "needs a full FBI field background investigation."