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

WASHINGTON — Former Trump White House national security adviser John Bolton said Tuesday that he has lost his Secret Service protective detail — one day after the 47th president canceled his security clearance, citing a 2020 tell-all book.

Within hours of taking office, Donald Trump scrapped the Secret Service detail assigned to his former national security adviser

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

The American people can judge for themselves which President made the right call," the onetime national security adviser said.

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

"I am disappointed but not surprised that President Trump has decided to terminate the protection previously provided by the United States Secret Service," John Bolton said.

Donald Trump unleashed a tirade against former aide John Bolton on Wednesday as he increasingly signals that he will back away from Washington’s center-right foreign policy establishment. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.

Mr. Trump’s decision to intervene in even the most violent cases sends an unmistakable message about his plans for power these next four years: He intends — even more so than in his first term — to test the outer limits of what he can get away with.

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