Donald Trump unleashed a tirade against former aide John Bolton on Wednesday as he increasingly signals that he will back away from Washington’s center-right foreign policy establishment. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.

The former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. made the announcement Tuesday on X. Bolton had around-the-clock security because the Iranian government reportedly made credible threats to assassinate him after the killing of top Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani during Trump’s first term.

In his inaugural address on Monday, President Donald Trump rightly pledged to “bring back free speech to America.” Trump continued, “Never again will the immense power of the state be weaponized to persecute political opponents,

John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the U.N., explains on “Elizabeth Vargas Reports" the potential problems he foresees in the Israel-Hamas ceasefire. He tells NewsNation’s Hena Doba that “there is no peace for Israel as long as Hamas survives in the Gaza strip.

Bolton departed the first Trump admin in 2019 and has continued to require Secret Service protection due to threats from Iran.

Bolton, who wrote memoir “The Room Where It Happened,” sharply criticized the president in his book, causing outrage from Trump at the time.

Bolton said that threat “remains today,” pointing to an Iranian plot to assassinate Trump before the 2024 election.

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,

President Donald Trump said the United States would have to “verify times 10” that Iran wouldn’t harbor a nuclear weapon if they made a deal with the country to denuclearize.

President Donald Trump has taken the first steps toward enacting his sweeping agenda with a series of executive actions that are expected to kickstart his promised transformation of the federal government.

He ends security for Bolton, Pompeo and Brian Hook, whom Iran wants to kill.