Steve Bannon had asked Bolton to draw up a plan to extricate the United States from the Iran deal
We are going to hear a whole lot more about pulling out of the IRAN nuclear deal now.
Old article but pertinent now
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/28/john-bolton-trump-iran-242107
John Bolton is pictured. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images.
John Bolton, former United States Ambassador to the United Nations, said in his op-ed that staff changes now prevent him from seeing the president. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images.
Bolton writes in op-ed he can't get in to see Trump anymore
By ELIANA JOHNSON
08/28/2017 05:49 PM EDT
Updated 08/28/2017 07:13 PM EDT
Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton once enjoyed regular access to President Donald Trump, but can no longer get a hearing with him. I requested a meeting with him and I was turned down, Bolton told POLITICO, though he declined to offer further details.
Bolton went public with his complaint in an op-ed published Monday in National Review in which he laid out a blueprint to exit the Iran nuclear deal because he couldnt deliver it to the president himself.
Bolton was considered for secretary of state and national security adviser during the presidential transition last winter, and until recently served as an informal adviser to the administration on national security issues.
Bolton said in his op-ed that staff changes now prevent him from seeing the president. He wrote that although former chief White House strategist Steve Bannon had asked him to draw up a plan to extricate the United States from the Iran deal in late July, that plan never made it to Trumps desk after Bannon was fired earlier this month.........................