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What happened to John Bolton during Donald Trump’s first term?

John Bolton either resigned or was fired as national security adviser in September 2019 due to disagreements with Pres. Donald Trump, particularly over North Korea and Iran. When Bolton wrote a memoir called The Room Where It Happened that was harshly critical of Trump’s management style, the administration tried to stop publication saying that Bolton had used classified documents to write it.