Wall Street Journal editorial board slammed Trump's decision to revoke Secret Service protection for several former aides as a “vindictive whim” and a “new low.”
President Donald Trump has terminated Secret Service protection for his former national security adviser John Bolton, Bolton said Tuesday.
Upon his return to the White House, Trump yanked away his former national security advisor's security clearances and protections.
John Bolton, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser turned foe, was told that threats of Iranian retaliation against him remained active in the days before Inauguration Day. In a Thursday interview on CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins,
Trump's former national security adviser predicted on Sunday that the president-elect's second term will be "just as chaotic" as the first one.
President’s outspoken former adviser loses his Secret Service protection within hours of Trump returning to office
Bolton departed the first Trump admin in 2019 and has continued to require Secret Service protection due to threats from Iran.
The Trump administration removed former national security adviser John Bolton's Secret Service protection. The decision was made in the past 24 hours, sources said.
Bolton said that threat “remains today,” pointing to an Iranian plot to assassinate Trump before the 2024 election.
President Trump on Tuesday explained why he revoked former national security adviser John Bolton’s security clearance. “I think there was enough time. We take a job, you take a job, you want to do
John Bolton, the president’s former national security adviser from his first term, had his security clearance revoked as one of Trump’s first moves in the White House. Bolton, who wrote the memoir The Room Where It Happened,