Bolton claims White House blocked access to Twitter account
Former US National Security Adviser John Bolton has accused the White House of blocking access to his personal Twitter account for more than six weeks after he was fired by President Donald Trump in September.
“We have now liberated the Twitter account, previously suppressed unfairly in the aftermath of my resignation as National Security Advisor,” Bolton wrote Friday in his first tweets since resigning in September.
“In full disclosure, the @WhiteHouse never returned access to my Twitter account. Thank you to @twitter for standing by their community standards and rightfully returning control of my account,” he wrote.
Bolton, a foreign policy hawk, did not explain how the White House had blocked his access to the account, but asked in the post if it had been done “out of fear of what I may say?”
Bolton, who is considered a key potential witness in Trump’s impeachment inquiry, tweeted in September that he had not been fired, as Trump claimed, but had instead offered his resignation as he and the president increasingly diverged on foreign policy.
Bolton’s Twitter account has been conspicuously silent since, prompting questions about why Bolton was not offering more details on his departure.
Bolton is among various US officials described as being alarmed at Trump’s controversial use of his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani on Ukraine policy, which is under intense scrutiny.
Former White House adviser on Russia Fiona Hill recalled in her testimony at public impeachment hearings on Thursday that Bolton had called Giuliani “a hand grenade who’s going to blow everybody up.”
Bolton, Llike other White House officials, was required to relinquish control of his private Twitter account, including the password, to the White House when he became national security adviser in March 2018, said two people familiar with the matter.
One of the people, who is close to Bolton, said that several days after Bolton resigned on September 10, the White House was asked to return control of the account, but no action was taken.
Eventually, with the White House continuing to take no action, Twitter was asked to recover control of the account for Bolton and it did so earlier this week, the person said.
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