Donald Trump Cut Off My Secret Service Protection: John Bolton
Source: Newsweek
Published Oct 11, 2024 at 5:37 AM EDT
Former National Security Adviser John Bolton has revealed that Donald Trump scrapped his secret service protection just "hours after" he quit his post. Bolton, who has been facing threats to his life from Iranian state actors, suggested that the former president had denied him the security typically afforded to senior officials in retaliation for his 2019 resignation.
"Normally people get protection for three months, four months, for some period after they leave office just as a precaution. But in my case, it ended a few hours after I resigned" Bolton said during an exclusive interview with Newsweek, in which the diplomat discussed on his former boss, U.S. foreign policy and his planned "protest vote" for the 2024 election. Newsweek reached out to Trump via email outside of normal business hours and will update this story if we receive a response.
In what Trump said was a termination but the diplomat insists was a resignation, Bolton left his post as National Security Adviser in September 2019, having served only 17 months in the role. As well as presidents, first ladies and foreign dignitaries, the secret service often includes individuals recently departed from high-ranking government positions in its list of protectees, as Bolton said had been the case for Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary Mark Esper during the Trump-Biden transition.
When asked why the former president had broken with standard practice in this case, Bolton said: "Because it was Trump [and] he wasn't very happy I'd resigned."
Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-cancelled-john-bolton-security-iran-election-2024-1967277
Yet he refused to testify at any of the 45-related investigations (notably the Impeachment inquiry while on a book tour).
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knowing they will receive USSS, FSB, RCMP, Shin Bet, MSS, Scotland Yard etc etc protection.
But imagine how much more circumspect these leaders and advisors would be when deciding to kill a so-called "enemy of the state" if they weren't afforded taxpayer-funded bodyguards, like John Bolton discovered in this case?
The former President of Mexico had no security detail for five years and no one tried to assassinate him-- including the drug cartels or a lone actor or a lunatic.
Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador meeting constituents on 13 Apr 2023.
Source:
https://www.newsweek.com/mexicos-obrador-says-he-doesnt-need-bodyguards-people-will-protect-him-1007985
Nobody cares about you 
The Donald kept calling John Bolton, "Michael Bolton," for some reason based on the dimmest's memory.
From Inside Edition:
The FBI dossier states that Maples’ former publicist, Chuck Jones, testified in court that she “had bought singer Michael Bolton back to her room following Trump's departure for a West Coast trip.”
https://www.insideedition.com/did-marla-maples-cheat-donald-trump-michael-bolton-51740
