Within hours of taking office, President Donald Trump terminated the Secret Service detail that was assigned to his former national security adviser John Bolton, Bolton confirmed to CNN on Tuesday.

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

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,

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

President Donald Trump has revoked security protection for former top US health official Anthony Fauci, who has faced death threats since leading the country's Covid-19 response. "You can't have a security detail for the rest of your life because you work for government,

Former national security adviser John Bolton claimed during an interview that the decision to revoke Secret Service protection is part of President Trump’s “retribution campaign” against his current critics.