John Bolton accuses White House of refusing to give him back his Twitter account

John Bolton on Friday charged the White House with refusing to give him access to his personal Twitter account ‘out of fear of what I say’ after he left the Donald Trump administration. 

Bolton made his allegation on Twitter, writing from his @AmbJohnBolton account that ‘we have now liberated the Twitter account, previously suppressed unfairly in the aftermath of my resignation as National Security Advisor.’

He denied he has gone into hiding. 

‘Re: speaking up — since resigning as National Security Advisor, the @whiteHouse refused to return access to my personal Twitter account. Out of fear of what I may say? To those who speculated I went into hiding, I’m sorry to disappoint!,’ he wrote.

John Bolton charged the White House with refusing to give him access to his personal Twitter account

John Bolton left President Trump's administration in September

John Bolton left President Trump’s administration in September

The tweets marked a re-emergence into the public for Bolton, who has kept a low profile since House Democrats began their impeachment inquiry into the president. 

President Trump told the hosts of ‘Fox & Friends’ on Friday morning that ‘no’ the White House had not frozen Bolton’s account.

‘No, of course not. Of course not. No, I actually had a good relationship with John. We disagreed on some things and some methods, but I actually had a good relationship,’ he said. 

The White House has not responded to DailyMail.com’s request for comment. 

Bolton had teased his return to the social media platform earlier in the day, writing ‘Glad to be back on Twitter after more than two months. For the backstory, stay tuned.’

His previously last tweet from his verified account was on September 10, the day President Trump fired him as his national security adviser. 

He has disputed that notion.

‘I offered to resign last night and President Trump said, ‘Let’s talk about it tomorrow,” Bolton wrote.  

Bolton is a frequent presence on cable news and had a contract as a contributor to Fox News before he joined the Trump administration.

His charge the administration is silencing him comes as lawmakers on the House Intelligence Committee want to speak to him in their impeachment inquiry of the president.

Bolton’s lawyer has said the lawmakers must issue a subpoena if they want to hear from their client. 

On Thursday, lawmakers heard from Fiona Hill, Bolton’s former deputy on the National Security Council. 

She testified about Bolton’s frustrations with a ‘shadow’ foreign policy being run in the Ukraine by Rudy Giuliani, President Trump’s personal lawyer.

‘Rudy Giuliani is a hand grenade that’s going to blow everyone up,’ she said Bolton told her during her testimony before the House Intelligence Committee on Thursday..

‘Did you understand what he meant by that?,’ the Democratic counsel asked her.

‘I did actually,’ she replied. ‘That obviously what Mr. Giuliani was saying was pretty explosive in any case, he was frequently on television, making quite incendiary remarks about everyone involved in this and he was clearly pushing views that would probably come back to haunt us. And, in fact, I think that’s where we are today.’

Giuliani was advocating an unproven conspiracy theory that it was the Ukraine that hacked the Democratic National Committee’s email server in the 2016 election and made it look like the Russians did it.

Hill, in her previous behind-closed doors testimony to lawmakers, said Bolton told her he didn’t want to be part of whatever ‘drug deal’ EU Ambassador Gordon Sondland and acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney were cooking up in the Ukraine.

House Democrats want to hear from John Bolton in their impeachment inquiry; they heard from his former deputy Fiona Hill on Thursday

House Democrats want to hear from John Bolton in their impeachment inquiry; they heard from his former deputy Fiona Hill on Thursday

House Democrats are investigating allegations President Trump with held nearly $400 million in U.S. aid to the Ukraine until they agreed to investigate the Bidens and the unproven allegation about interference in the 2016 election. 

Bill Taylor, the senior U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, testified behind closed doors last month that Bolton warned against having the now-infamous July 25 phone call between Trump and Zelensky, the call that ultimately led to the impeachment inquiry.

‘Ambassador Bolton was not interested in having – did not want to have the call because he thought it was going to be a disaster,’ he said, according to his released testimony. ‘He thought that there could be some talk of investigations, or worse, on the call.’

‘Turned out he was right,’ he added.

 

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