'Petty': CNN reports 'high-ranking ex-Trump officials' mad after security details stripped
CNN's Jamie Gangel smacked president Donald Trump's decision to cancel security details for some of his former administration officials after they criticized him.
The newly inaugurated president revoked Secret Service protection for former national security adviser John Bolton, as well as former secretary of state Mike Pompeo and his former top aide Brian Hook, less than a day after returning to office, and the change went into effect hours after they were notified in spite of assassination threats against them.
"One of the shocking things, excuse me, is that he pulled the security for John Bolton and for former secretary of state Mike Pompeo," said Gangel, a senior correspondent for the network.
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President Joe Biden offered them protection following a series of threats based in Iran as retaliation for a drone strike ordered by Trump that killed Iranian general Qasem Soleimani in January 2020, and Gangel noted the irony of the president's decision.
"Those two men needed that security because they carried out a Donald Trump order, which was an assassination hit on Soleimani, an Iranian," Gangel said. "That kind of security threat that doesn't go for the rest of your life, it is constantly looked at, reviewed, and it's clear that the FBI and other security agencies have felt these two men need it. I've spoken to high-ranking former Trump officials who say that this was petty, and that if something happens to these two men, it's on Trump."
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