'Cruelty': Outrage as Trump strips Secret Service detail from ex-assassination target

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Onlookers appeared stunned Tuesday after President Donald
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of his
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and Secret Service detail, despite Bolton reportedly being previously targeted by an Iranian assassination attempt.

Trump removed the security detail guarding
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within hours of taking office.

"I am disappointed but not surprised that President Trump has made this decision,” Bolton told
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. “Notwithstanding my criticisms of President Biden’s national-security policies, he nonetheless made the decision to once again extend Secret Service protection to me in 2021.”

Bolton said the Justice Department filed criminal charges against an Iranian Revolutionary Guard official three years ago for trying to "hire a hit man to target me."

"That threat remains today, as also demonstrated by the recent arrest of someone trying to arrange for President Trump’s own assassination. The American people can judge for themselves which President made the right call.”

Social media users reacted with disdain over Trump's move.

Journalist Yashar Ali wrote on Bluesky, "
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. Trump has terminated John Bolton’s Secret Service detail. Can’t stand Bolton, but he is under legitimate and grave threat by Islamic Republic of Iran. Supreme Leader despises him and brings him up in speeches by name, something he normally reserves for US Presidents."

"The
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: within hours of taking office, with serious business piling up, Trump took time to cancel the Secret Service detail for former national security adviser John Bolton - a thorn in Trump’s side - even though Bolton faces Iranian death threats," wrote Mark Chadbourn, journalist at The New European.

"You all know I’m no fan of Bolton, but this move by Trump is just
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," wrote the user formerly known as Angry Staffer, now just Angry. The account gained a massive following during the first Trump administration.
 

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The American people have voted for this weak impulsive venal jealous spiteful manchild.




But he’s going to lower my car insurance, so it’s all good.


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I think that was a good thing he shouldn't have a security clearance and he is wealthy enough he can pay for his own armed security Force I think Trump needs to do a lot more of this and I think he will