Amid the list of executive orders signed by Donald Trump hours after taking oath as the 47th President of the United States, the US president revoked Secret Service protection for his former National Security Advisor John Bolton.
Bolton, 76, has served in several senior national security positions in the Bush Administration and joined the Trump administration in 2018.
Amid the list of executive orders signed by Donald Trump hours after taking oath as the 47th President of the United States, the US president revoked Secret Service protection for his former National Security Advisor John Bolton.
Bolton, 76, has served in several senior national security positions in the Bush Administration and joined the Trump administration in 2018.
However, after Trump pulled out of the nuclear deal with Iran, Bolton was fired from his position by Trump due to "various disagreements" in November 2019.
After leaving the White House, Bolton required Secret Service protection due to various death threats issued against him from Iran.
Trump has revoked Bolton's detail in 2019 after he left the administration. However, this protection was restored once Biden assumed office in 2020.
With Trump 2.0 underway, the US President has once again revoked John Bolton's security detail stating that "we're not going to have security on people for the rest of their lives."
"I thought he was a very dumb person but I used him well because every time people saw me come into a meeting with John Bolton standing behind me they thought that he'd attack them because he was a warmonger," Trump added.
Trump further accused his former NSA of "revealing sensitive information drawn from his time in government" in a critical memoir he published in 2020.
In Bolton's 2020 memoir, the government aide stated that Trump was "underinformed" in matters of foreign policy and focused only on shaping his media legacy. The former NSA added that Trump asked the leaders of Ukraine and China to help him win the 2020 elections.
Bolton reacted to the withdrawal of his security detail and stated that while he was disappointed, he was not surprised Trump did this.
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