U.S. President Donald Trump shook up his foreign policy team again on Thursday, replacing H.R. McMaster as national security adviser with John Bolton, a hawk who has advocated using military force against North Korea and Iran. The news of Bolton's appointment followed a meeting he had with Trump in the Oval Office. Bolton, 69, is a Fox News analyst who contemplated a run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016. 'MUTUALLY AGREED'McMaster, hired early in Trump's presidency to replace scandal-tarred Michael Flynn as national security adviser, had widely been expected to leave soon.

Source: dna March 23, 2018 01:30 UTC