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Upon his return to the White House, Trump yanked away his former national security advisor's security clearances and protections.

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,

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.

Mike Pompeo, Brian Hook and John Bolton all played a role in the Trump-sanctioned drone strike that killed Iranian general Qassim Suleimani in 2020 — which made them subject to ongoing threats

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

It’s not just criminal prosecutions that worry those who have crossed President Donald Trump. There are more prosaic kinds of retaliation: having difficulty renewing passports, getting audited by the IRS and losing federal pensions.

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

Pompeo and Hook had been involved in America’s aggressive stance toward Iran during the first Trump administration, and Pompeo was reportedly a driving force behind convincing Trump to have Gen. Qasem Soleimani, the leader of the Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force, killed.

President Donald Trump pulled former adviser John Bolton's Secret Service protection. Bolton has been facing assassination threats since the U.S. killed Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani in 2020. In recent remarks,

In President Donald Trump’s first television interview in the Oval Office since returning to the White House, he told Fox News he “might have to” cut funding for sanctuary cities, rebuffed concerns over TikTok and criticized Biden’s pardons.