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struggle4progress

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Tue Jan 21, 2025, 05:23 PM Jan 21

Bolton says The Don removed his Secret Service detail [View all]

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

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