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Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\nWho is John Bolton?published at 14:53 British Summer Time<\/p>\n
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John Bolton served as the National Security Adviser during Trump’s first presidency. <\/p>\n
He was the third person to assume that role in that term – a role that was characterised by a string of resignations, public fallout with the president, and firings.<\/p>\n
Before joining the Trump administration, he was briefly the US ambassador to the UN from 2005 to 2006 during the George W Bush administration. He had previously served as an assistant attorney general during the Ronald Reagan administration in the 1980s. <\/p>\n
He also helped build the case that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction, which turned out to be wrong.<\/p>\n
Bolton’s relationship with Trump soured after policy differences began to emerge and the president announced he had fired him in a September 2019 social media post.<\/p>\n
“I informed John Bolton last night that his services are no longer needed at the White House,” he wrote. “I disagreed strongly with many of his suggestions, as did others in the Administration, and therefore I asked John for his resignation, which was given to me this morning.”<\/p>\n
Bolton disputed this fact saying he had voluntary offered to resign.<\/p>\n