WSJ Board: Trump Has Hit “New Low” By Revoking Protection For Aides That Iran Vowed To Assassinate

From the Wall Street Journal editorial board:

The possibility of falling out of President Trump’s good graces is an occupational hazard for good people who serve in his Administration, but this looks like a new low: Mr. Trump reportedly has ordered an end to security protection for three former advisers who are living under threat of assassination by Iran. Pray it won’t happen, but what if one of them now gets attacked?

In the summer of 2022 the Justice Department charged a member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) with planning to kill Mr. Bolton by attempting “to pay individuals in the United States $300,000 to carry out the murder in Washington, D.C. or Maryland.”

As recently as last week, according to Mr. Bolton, he was informed that the threat against him hadn’t diminished. The feds said three years ago that the plot to murder Mr. Bolton was likely meant as Iranian retaliation for the U.S. strike, ordered by Mr. Trump in 2020, that killed the IRGC’s Qassem Soleimani.

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In addition to Bolton and former Sec. of State Mike Pompeo, Trump has revoked the protective detail for his former Iran envoy Brian Hook.

Cultists are pouring into the replies of Bolton’s tweet below, calling him a “traitor” and openly hoping for Iran to succeed in killing him.