Senate Republicans are under growing pressure from prominent former Republican officials to reject President Trump’s pick to head the FBI, Kash Patel, setting the stage for another bruising confirmation later this week.

President Donald Trump’s decision to terminate security protection for former administration officials turned critics John Bolton, Brian Hook and Mike Pompeo is one early decision that he “would be wise to reverse,

John Bolton, President Trump’s former national security adviser, says Mr. Trump pulled his security detail out of vengeance. Now, he worries that Kash Patel could help a retribution campaign if confirmed to head the FBI.

Former national security adviser John Bolton said he believes Kash Patel, President Trump’s nominee for FBI director, resembles a “climbing weed” in his ascension to the role. “You have to

Donald Trump unleashed a tirade against former aide John Bolton on Wednesday as he increasingly signals that he will back away from Washington’s center-right foreign policy establishment. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.

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

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.

Like many who worked for Trump during his first presidential tenure, Bolton has been vocal about how tumultuous the work can be. But for those who will be navigating what he calls the “continuing turmoil” of advising Trump, Bolton has some straightforward recommendations.

Two senior Republican senators on Sunday urged U.S. President Donald Trump to rethink his decision to strip personal security from some former Trump administration officials, one of whom was the target of an alleged Iranian plot.

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.

Within hours of taking office, President Donald Trump terminated the Secret Service detail that was assigned to his former national security adviser John Bolton, Bolton confirmed to CNN on Tuesday.

If a Republican gave a press conference right now and came out guns blazing on the president, that’s not going to work,” said the first senior GOP Senate aide. “Obviously