(Newswire.net — September 12, 2019) — After US President Donald Trump announced on Twitter that he had fired a national security advisor, information emerged that Trump and Bolton had been having discussions about a number of foreign policy challenges, from Afghanistan to Iran, the Guardian reports.
Many at the White House were not satisfied with Bolton’s behavior, and an unnamed source told the BBC that he had created a separate entity from the National Security Council.
“Bolton works separately from the rest of the White House,” said a former Trump administration official who wanted to remain anonymous.
According to him, Bolton did not attend meetings and followed his own agenda. “He runs his own show,” the official said, BBC reports.
Another White House official told the BBC’s US partner, CBS News, that Bolton always followed his own priorities and never asked the president about his priorities.
The White House BBC correspondent once asked Bolton what his relationship with the president was, to which he burst out laughing.
A former senior official in the US administration told CBS that Bolton’s insistence that everyone should be aligned with his own opinion, angered many people in the White House, including the president.
In recent months, according to a CBS source, requests for Bolton’s dismissal have become louder, and over the past two weeks it was public knowledge that Bolton was next in line for dismissal.
Following Trump’s announcement that he was fired, Bolton insisted in a message to Fox News that he had resigned as national security advisor.
He wrote to Washington Post journalist Robert Bones that he too “would have something to say” and that “his only concern was US national security.”
Bolton, who has been in office since April 2018, was Trump’s third National Security Advisor, after Michael Fliben and H.R. McMaster.
Acting US National Security Advisor will be Charles Kuperman, John Bolton’s former deputy, the White House representative told the BBC.