The Joint Chiefs of Staff may serve as a signal to incoming chiefs that if they don’t get along with the commander in chief, they too might be removed from Pentagon history.
Bolton said that because he no longer has his Secret Service protection, he is taking precautions for his own safety. A member of Iran’s infamous Islamic Revolutionary Guard.
Corps was prosecuted by the Justice Department in 2022 with plotting Bolton’s assassination, most likely in reprisal for the Trump administration’s murder of an Iranian general two years before.
Bolton told NBC News that since Biden first gave him a security detail in December 2021, it has been extended every six months, most recently last month.
Bolton said, “This is a part of the retribution campaign.” He went on to say, “He [Trump] doesn’t really care how serious it is.” “Every action he can take helps him feel a little better.”
He said that in the days leading up to Trump’s inauguration, members of the U.S. intelligence community informed him that the danger of assassination had not diminished.
