Former Trump Adviser Says ‘John Bolton Should Be Protected’ After Secret Service Detail Revoked

Former Trump senior adviser David Urban told CNN on Tuesday that John Bolton “should be protected,” after President Donald Trump terminated his former national security adviser’s Secret Service protection.

Reacting to the news on CNN’s The Source, Urban said, “Listen, I don’t know what the intelligence looks like. Obviously there was an intelligence threat analysis done. If there’s an active threat still on former ambassador Bolton’s life, I think he should have security. If it’s for the rest of his life, it should be the rest of his life.”

He continued:

If John Bolton did things in our nation’s defense that put his life at risk, then he should be defended by our nation for as long as it takes. Whether it’s President Trump, President Biden, future presidents, if you do things in defense of our nation as a public figure and a foreign government says, “We’re going to kill you,” and there’s an active threat, then I think we have an obligation to defend you. That’s why special operators have their faces blacked out.

Urban concluded, “I think John Bolton should be protected.”

Bolton revealed on Tuesday that his Secret Service protection had been terminated following Trump’s inauguration as president.

“I am disappointed but not surprised that President Trump has decided to terminate the protection previously provided by the United States Secret Service,” he wrote. “Notwithstanding my criticisms of President Biden’s national-security policies, he nonetheless made the decision to extend that protection to me in 2021.”

Bolton continued, “The Justice Department filed criminal charges against an Iranian Revolutionary Guard official in 2022 for attempting 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.”

Trump defended the decision during a press conference, telling reporters, “You can’t have that for life. You shouldn’t expect it for life.”

He argued, “You take a job, you want to do a job, we’re not gonna have security on people for the rest of their lives. Why should we? I thought he was a very dumb person, but I used him well because every time people saw me come into a meeting with John Bolton standing behind me, they thought that he’d attack them because he was a warmonger.”

Watch above via CNN.