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Bolton Named Trump’s National Security Adviser after Mcmaster

Bolton Named Trump’s National Security Adviser after Mcmaster
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Charging ahead with the dramatic remaking of his White House, US President Donald Trump said he would replace national security adviser H.R. McMaster with the former UN Ambassador John Bolton.

Bolton Named Trump’s National Security Adviser after Mcmaster

After weeks of speculation about McMaster's future, Trump and the three-star general put a positive face on the Thursday departure, making no reference to the growing public friction between them.

Trump tweeted that McMaster had done "an outstanding job & will always remain my friend." He said Bolton will take over April 9 as his third national security adviser in just over a year.

The national security shakeup comes as the president is increasingly shedding advisers who once eased the Republican establishment's concerns about the foreign policy and political novice in the White House.

McMaster is the sixth close adviser or aide to announce a departure in a turbulent six weeks, joining ally Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who was unceremoniously fired last week.

The White House said Trump is seeking to put new foreign policy leaders in place ahead of a not-yet-scheduled meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jung Un.
 Bolton is likely to add a hardline influence to those talks, as well as deliberations over whether to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal.

The White House said Thursday that McMaster's exit had been under discussion for some time and stressed it was not due to any one incident, including this week's stunning leak about Trump's recent phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

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