Wall Street Journal Shreds Donald Trump's Most Recent 'Vindictive Whim' As A 'New Low'
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The president may find himself unable to escape responsibility, warned the newspaper's conservative editorial board.
President Donald Trump’s pulling of security protection for three of his former top aides — who have all faced credible threats to their lives — has been slammed and condemned as “vindictive” by the conservative editorial board of the Wall Street Journal.
In a column published online Thursday, the newspaper’s board acknowledged “the possibility of falling out of President Trump’s good graces is an occupational hazard for good people who serve in his Administration.”
“But this looks like a new low,” it added.
Trump has nixed protection for his onetime national security adviser John Bolton, his former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his former Iran envoy Brian Hook.
Bolton, who was the target of an Iranian assassination plot, has become a fierce critic of his former boss. Trump, meanwhile, has retaliated with insults.