Former President Trump has revoked the Secret Service protection of John Bolton, his former national security advisor. Trump criticized Bolton's intelligence and blamed him for the Iraq War. Bolton had received protection from the Biden administration after an Iranian agent was charged with attempting to hire a hitman to target him.
“We’re not gonna have security on people for the rest of their lives. Why should we?” the 47th and 45th president said of Bolton , 76, who worked for Trump during his first term in 2018 and 2019.
“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.”Bolton was Trump’s national security adviser in 2018 and 2019 and wrote a tell-all memoir shortly after he was fired.Trump blasted Bolton’s role in launching the Iraq War in 2003, saying, “We got nothing out of it except a lot of death. We killed a lot of people, and John Bolton was one of those guys — a stupid guy.
The Justice Department said in 2022 that an Iranian agent “attempted to pay individuals in the United States $300,000” to whack Bolton, “likely in retaliation” for the January 2020 US airstrike that killed Islamic Soleimani’s death occurred almost four months after Trump fired Bolton, whose book was published in June 2020, outraging Trump and prompting the Justice Department to sue Bolton and open a grand jury review of whether he improperly disclosed sensitive information.
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