Pompeo and Hook had been involved in America’s aggressive stance toward Iran during the first Trump administration, and Pompeo was reportedly a driving force behind convincing Trump to have Gen. Qasem Soleimani, the leader of the Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force, killed.

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President Trump has sparked fresh controversy in his first week back in office with his decision to remove security details from several prominent people with whom he has fallen out. Dr. Anthony

President-elect Trump indicates he is not interested in hiring people who have worked with or are supported by "people suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome."

He ends security protection for the first-term advisers Iran has marked for death.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday revoking the security clearance of 51 former intelligence officials who signed a 2020 letter arguing that emails from a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden carried “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation” and that of his former national security adviser John Bolton.

President Donald Trump revoked former National Security Advisor John Bolton's Secret Service protection after his inauguration as the 47th president on Monday, Bolton told Fox News Digital. "I am disappointed but not surprised that President Trump has decided to terminate the protection previously provided by the United States Secret Service,

attempted to arrange the assassination of Donald Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton. According to the U.S. Department of Justice’s indictment, Poursafi offered a confidential ...

The former national security adviser has been critical of Trump for years. President Donald Trump has terminated Secret Service protection for his former national security adviser John Bolton ...

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,

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