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By Mary Bruce, Molly Nagle, and Mike Levine
January 21, 2025, 3:51 PM
President Donald Trump has terminated Secret Service protection for his former national security adviser John Bolton, Bolton said in a post on X Tuesday afternoon.
"Notwithstanding my criticisms of President Biden's national security policies, he nonetheless made the decision to extend that protection to me in 2021. The Justice Department filed criminal charges against an Iranian Revolutionary Guard official in 2022 for attempting to hire a hit man to target me. That threat remains today," Bolton wrote. "The American people can judge for themselves which President made the right call" ...
Trump has lashed out at Bolton since leaving office in social media posts and interviews.
On Monday, he signed an executive order that called for Bolton to lose any security clearance he might still hold ...
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/john-bolton-trump-removed-secret-service-detail/story?id=117951969

Cha
(308,791 posts)ASAP
AKwannabe
(6,676 posts)
allegorical oracle
(4,382 posts)struggle4progress
(122,003 posts)A willingness to oppose Fascism really does matter
sakabatou
(44,324 posts)struggle4progress
(122,003 posts)Jit423
(1,085 posts)pardoned most of his hit list.
Irish_Dem
(66,514 posts)bdamomma
(67,752 posts)felon.
Boomerproud
(8,672 posts)Not a good judge of character huh?
rampartd
(1,789 posts)sort of a "here i am, defenseless, come get me."
if i were bolton i;d be more worried about proud boys than iranians.
tritsofme
(19,013 posts)Johonny
(23,098 posts)So there is a real threat.
hueymahl
(2,771 posts)He deserves any bad thing that happens to him