Trump, Bolton and Secret Service
The Trump administration removed former national security adviser John Bolton's Secret Service protection. The decision was made in the past 24 hours, sources said.
President Donald Trump has terminated Secret Service protection for his former national security adviser John Bolton, Bolton said Tuesday.
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.
John Bolton, the president’s former national security adviser from his first term, had his security clearance revoked as one of Trump’s first moves in the White House. Bolton, who wrote the memoir The Room Where It Happened,
Bolton departed the first Trump admin in 2019 and has continued to require Secret Service protection due to threats from Iran.
President Trump has ended Secret Service protection for former national security adviser John Bolton. Sean Hepburn Ferrer, the son of the late Audrey Hepburn, shared his thoughts on Ivanka Trump wearing a dress originally designed for his mom to Donald Trump’s 2025 Inaugural Ball.
President Joseph R. Biden Jr. had granted Bolton and another Trump national security adviser protection in 2021 after threats from Iran.
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,
Prosecutors charged more than 1,580 people for alleged January 6-related actions and secured roughly 1,270 convictions. That means Trump said nearly everyone who has been charged with a crime related to the attack will be pardoned, essentially ending all January 6 cases.
Senators Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski were the only two Republicans who voted against Donald Trump’s choice to head the Department of Defense, Pete Hegseth, in a procedural vote Thursday, citing concerns with his ability to lead the U.S. military.