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He followed that tweet with the line, \"PS - I recorded the audio version, not Omarosa.\"

But the attacks from the Trump administration continued on Friday afternoon.

Pompeo, the current secretary of state, followed up on Trump's criticism at a briefing, calling the meetings \"unseemly,\" \"unprecedented\" and \"beyond inappropriate.\"

\"What Secretary Kerry has done is unseemly, and unprecedented,\" Pompeo said passionately at the top of a press briefing Friday afternoon. \"You can't find precedent for this in U.S. history. And secretary ought not to, Secretary Kerry ought not to engage in that kind of behavior. It's inconsistent with what the foreign policy of the United States is as directed by this president. And it is beyond inappropriate for him to be engaged.\"

A spokesperson for Kerry responded Friday evening, \"Let's cut through the distractions and talk about real facts, not alternative facts. Secretary Kerry stays in touch with his former counterparts around the world just like every previous Secretary of State, and in a long phone conversation with Secretary Pompeo earlier this year he went into great detail about what he had learned about the Iranian’s view. No secrets were kept from this administration.\"

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PHOTO: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrives to speak at a news conference in the press briefing room at the State Department in Washington, Friday, Sept. 14, 2018, in Washington
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The spokesperson cited Henry Kissinger, who served as secretary of state under Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, as having met \"for decades with Russia and China.\"

\"There’s nothing unusual, let alone unseemly or inappropriate, about former diplomats meeting with foreign counterparts,\" Kerry's spokesperson said.

Former Undersecretary of State Wendy Sherman, who was also singled out by Pompeo, tweeted the current secretary of state \"tried to distract from Manafort and gain points with president by attacking me today.\"

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PHOTO: In this Jan. 15, 2017 file photo, U.S Secretary of State John Kerry speaks with the media after attending the Mideast peace conference in Paris.
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Ned Price, former CIA analyst and adviser to Barack Obama on his National Security Council, was even more direct.

\"Pompeo was speaking to an audience of one,\" Price said in a statement, referring to the president. \"This was nothing more than an attempt to parrot and please his boss. We know that because Pompeo’s State Department was briefed on these discussions, which are commonplace among former diplomats, both before and after the fact.\"

Kerry is in the midst of a promotional tour for his new book, \"Every Day is Extra,\" including stops in Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon, over the weekend.

ABC News' Conor Finnegan and Sarah Kolinovsky contributed to this report.

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