Bolton did, however, publish before getting permission to do so, and anyone who has had a security clearance knows that dodging the review is a violation not just of the letter of one’s clearance conditions but also of the norms and instincts inculcated by the culture of national security.

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

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.

The 51 former intelligence community officials claimed that a report about Hunter Biden's laptop had "the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation."

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

“I can give you some big numbers of very good security people,” Mr Trump said. “They can hire their own security. They all made a lot of money. Fauci made a lot of money. They all did. So if they felt that strongly, I think that certainly I would not take responsibility.”

Hawkish foreign policy advisers from Trump’s first presidency have faced alleged assassination threats from Iran.

President Donald Trump says his administration will move to suspend the security clearances of the more than four dozen former intelligence officials who signed a 2020 letter saying that the Hunter Biden laptop saga bore the hallmarks of a “Russian information operation.

President Donald Trump has revoked government security protection for former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his top aide, Brian Hook. Pompeo and Hook have faced threats from Iran since they took hard-line stances on the Islamic Republic during Trump's first administration.

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,

Kaitlan Collins was moved to say "wow" following a revelation from John Bolton about cracks within the current Trump political team.