Sen. Rand Paul Randal (Rand) Howard PaulSecond GOP senator to quarantine after exposure to coronavirus GOP senator to quarantine after coronavirus exposure The Hill's Morning Report - Sponsored by National Industries for the Blind - Trump seeks to flip 'Rage' narrative; Dems block COVID-19 bill MORE (R-Ky.) is urging President Trump not to pick former United Nations ambassador John Bolton as his new national security adviser.

Bolton is on the shortlist for the job along with other candidates such as Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster and Keith Alexander, the former director of the National Security Agency.

Paul, who opposed Bolton when his name was floated for secretary of State earlier this year, took a hardline against him for the national security adviser’s post on Sunday, calling him a “bad choice.”

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He argued that Bolton’s foreign policy views are more in line with Sen. John McCain John Sidney McCainThe electoral reality that the media ignores Kelly's lead widens to 10 points in Arizona Senate race: poll COVID response shows a way forward on private gun sale checks MORE (R-Ariz.), a proponent of interventionist American national security policy, than with Trump.

“The problem with John Bolton is that he disagrees with President Trump’s foreign policy,” Paul said on ABC’s “This Week.”

Trump during last year’s campaign repeatedly called the 2003 invasion of Iraq a mistake and questioned whether the trillions of dollars spent on military engagements in Iraq and Afghanistan would have been better spent at home.

“He would be closer to John McCain’s foreign policy. John Bolton still believes the Iraq War was a good idea, he still believes regime change is a good idea, he still believes that nation-building is a good idea,” he added.

Paul warned that Bolton, who served as U.S. ambassador to the U.N. under President George W. Bush, has a troubling record of “acting on his own.”

“My fear is that secret wars would be developing around the globe,” Paul said of the prospect of Bolton being hired to serve as the president’s top security adviser.