The former national security advisor has faced threats from Iran going back years, including an alleged assassination plot.

President Donald Trump has terminated Secret Service protection for his former national security adviser John Bolton, Bolton said Tuesday.

U.S. President Donald Trump stripped Secret Service protection on Tuesday from his former national security adviser, John Bolton, who became the target of an Iranian murder plot after he served in the White House.

President Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton said that the president ended his Secret Service protection shortly after his return to the White House.  “I am disappointed

President Joseph R. Biden Jr. had granted Bolton and another Trump national security adviser protection in 2021 after threats from Iran.

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.

John Bolton, who left the Trump White House in November 2019, has had Secret Service protection during the Biden administration due to concerns that Iran could target him.

Like many who worked for Trump during his first presidential tenure, Bolton has been vocal about how tumultuous the work can be. But for those who will be navigating what he calls the “continuing turmoil” of advising Trump, Bolton has some straightforward recommendations.

President-elect Donald Trump has named and shamed 11 people who are on the White House blacklist to serve in his administration. The list includes some of Trump’s well known “enemies” who served in his first administration and have since spoken out about the dangers of a second Trump term, including John Bolton and Mike Pence.

Mr Bolton served as Mr Trump’s third national security adviser until he was dismissed in 2019. Read more at straitstimes.com.