President Donald Trump twice retaliated against his former National Security Advisor John Bolton since taking office Monday.
CNN reported Tuesday that Trump moved to have Bolton’s Secret Service protection terminated.
“I am disappointed but not surprised that President Trump has made this decision,” Bolton posted to X. “Notwithstanding my criticisms of President Biden’s national-security policies, he nonetheless made the decision to once again extend Secret Service protection to me in 2021.”
Trump pushed out Bolton, his third national security adviser, in September 2019.
Bolton published a tell-all book about his time working for Trump in June 2020, ahead of the 2020 presidential election.
Trump’s Justice Department tried to stop publication of the book claiming Bolton needed to wait for the White House to review whether it contained classified information.
After leaving government service it was revealed that Bolton had been targeted for assassination by Iran.
“The Justice Department filed criminal charges against an Iranian Revolutionary Guard official in 2022 for attempting to hire a hit man to target me,” Bolton continued. “That threat remains today, as also demonstrated by the recent arrest of someone trying to arrange for President Trump’s own assassination.”