{"id":353693,"date":"2018-03-24T18:01:51","date_gmt":"2018-03-24T17:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-bolton-plans-to-fire-dozens-of-white-house-officials\/"},"modified":"2018-03-24T18:01:51","modified_gmt":"2018-03-24T17:01:51","slug":"presstv-bolton-plans-to-fire-dozens-of-white-house-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-bolton-plans-to-fire-dozens-of-white-house-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Bolton plans to fire dozens of White House officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>John Bolton, US President Donald Trump\u2019s incoming hawkish national security adviser, is reportedly planning a massive dismissal of staff at the National Security Council, aiming to remove dozens of White House officials.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sources aware of the changes told the Foreign Policy magazine that Bolton is preparing to \u201cclean house\u201d and remove nearly all of the political appointees brought in by his predecessor, H.R. McMaster.<\/p>\n<p>McMaster had replaced Michael Flynn in February 2017 after he was forced to resign over contacts he had with the Russian government during Trump&#8217;s presidential transition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBolton can and will clean house,\u201d one former White House official told Foreign Policy. One other source said, \u201cHe is going to remove almost all the political [appointees] McMaster brought in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another former official said that any National Security Council officials appointed under former President Barack Obama \u201cshould start packing their&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/03\/24\/556409\/john-bolton-donald-trump-Mike-pompeo-Republicans\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Bolton, US President Donald Trump\u2019s incoming hawkish national security adviser, is reportedly planning a massive dismissal of staff at the National Security Council, aiming to remove dozens of White House officials. Sources aware of the changes told the Foreign Policy magazine that Bolton is preparing to \u201cclean house\u201d and remove nearly all of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-353693","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}