(Washington) Donald Trump on Tuesday called his former National Security Advisor at the White House, during his first term, an “idiot” and deprived him of Secret Service protection for high-ranking officials.
Posted at 5:53 p.m.
Updated at 8:03 p.m.
“We are not going to keep people safe for the rest of their lives. For what? “, asked the American president during a press conference about John Bolton.
“I took him for a really stupid person but I put him to good use because at every meeting [internationale] with John Bolton, people believed that he was going to attack them because he is a warmonger,” added the tribune.
With his face covered with a thick mustache, this 76-year-old Republican made himself known internationally as ambassador to the UN under the presidency of George W. Bush, during the war in Iraq.
Earlier Tuesday, he himself announced on
He again said on Tuesday that he was the target of an assassination plan instigated by Iran between 2021 and 2022. Tehran would have wanted to avenge the death of its general Qassem Soleimani, killed on January 3, 2020 in a drone strike in Iraq ordered by Donald Trump during his first term (2017-2021).
“Hit Killers”
John Bolton also recalled that justice, under the administration of Joe Biden, had indicted in August 2022 an Iranian on the run, suspected of belonging to the Revolutionary Guards, the ideological army of the Islamic Republic, and of having sponsored an assassination project by “trying to recruit a hitman to [l]e shows ».
-Since September, Washington has been offering up to $20 million for any information leading to the arrest of this man, Shahram Poursafi, alias Mehdi Rezayi.
According to John Bolton, then-President Joe Biden had extended his Secret Service protection measure in January 2021, but Donald Trump deprived him of it on Monday and cut off all access to security and intelligence data .
A presidential decree accuses him of having revealed “sensitive information from his time” at the White House, from 2018 to 2019.
“The threat remains, as evidenced by the recent arrest of someone who attempted to organize the assassination of President Trump,” warned Mr. Bolton, referring to rumors of a planned Iranian attack against Mr. Trump.
In September, a 46-year-old Pakistani man, close to Iran and charged with “terrorism” for plotting the assassination of an American official, pleaded not guilty before federal justice. Asif Merchant is accused of seeking to recruit hitmen.
Joe Biden’s Minister of Justice, Merrick Garland, had ruled out any link with the assassination attempt against candidate Trump during a rally in Pennsylvania on July 13.
On January 14 on NBC News, Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian again denied any involvement by Iran.
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