The former national security advisor has faced threats from Iran going back years, including an alleged assassination plot.
President Donald Trump has terminated Secret Service protection for his former national security adviser John Bolton, Bolton said Tuesday.
President Joseph R. Biden Jr. had granted Bolton and another Trump national security adviser protection in 2021 after threats from Iran.
Former national security adviser John Bolton claimed during an interview that the decision to revoke Secret Service protection is part of President Trump’s “retribution campaign” against his
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,
Bolton departed the first Trump admin in 2019 and has continued to require Secret Service protection due to threats from Iran.
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.
The nearly three-year war between Russia and Ukraine has claimed thousands of lives and severely impacted their economies and infrastructure. What To Know. Russia and Ukraine have
Bolton said that threat “remains today,” pointing to an Iranian plot to assassinate Trump before the 2024 election.
The move is meant to please Trump voters, punish perceived enemies and represents “the most politically saturated security action since the Oppenheimer case in the 1950s.”
A former Secret Service agent said President Trump’s decision to terminate protection for former national security adviser John Bolton and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will put them at