Trump revoked Bolton’s physical protection

According to RCO News Agency, “Donald Trump”, the vice president of the United States, ended the policy of physical protection of “John Bolton”, his former national security advisor, which was applied with the claim of “life threats from Iran”.

Trump had canceled this protection in the last days of his previous administration, but in the administration of Joe Biden, the physical protection of Bolton, which cost the US government “millions” by claiming that Bolton and a number of other officials of the first Trump administration from It was re-applied to Iran under threat.

In his first reaction to Trump’s decision tonight, Bolton told CNN: “I’m disappointed but I’m not surprised that Trump made this decision. “Despite my criticisms of President Biden’s national security policies, he has decided to extend Secret Service protection to me once again in 2021.”

He claimed: “In 2022, the Ministry of Justice filed criminal charges against an official of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps for trying to hire an assassin to target me. This threat still exists today. “The American people can judge for themselves which president made the right request.”

This claim has been rejected by the Iranian authorities and even the US Federal Service.

Trump is also among the officials who have been under physical protection by claiming to be facing the threat of assassination by Iran. In addition to Trump and Bolton, “Mike Pompeo”, the Secretary of State of Trump’s first administration, and “Brian Hook”, the former US special representative for Iran affairs, also benefited from this protection.

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