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McMaster Out, Bolton in as Trump's National Security Adviser

By JILL COLVIN In this February 2017 photo, former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference
CATHERINE LUCEY (CPAC) in Oxon Hill, Md. President Trump is replacing National security adviser H.R. McMaster with Bolton.
KEN THOMAS
WASHINGTON (AP) — (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
President Donald Trump
is replacing national President Vladimir Putin Trump did it anyway. said he would be requesting adding that afterward he
security adviser H.R.
McMaster with the former about his recent re-election In a statement released by retirement from the U.S. "will leave public service."
U.N. Ambassador John
Bolton, injecting a hawkish win. the White House, McMaster Army effective this summer, Continued on Page 3
foreign policy voice into his
administration ahead of
key decisions on Iran and
North Korea.
Trump tweeted Thursday
that McMaster has done
"an outstanding job & will
always remain my friend."
He said Bolton will take over
April 9.
Bolton will be Trump's third
national security adviser.
Trump has clashed with
McMaster, a respected
three-star general, and talk
that McMaster would soon
leave the administration
had picked up in recent
weeks.
His departure follows
Trump's dramatic ouster
of Secretary of State Rex
Tillerson last week. It also
comes after someone at
the White House leaked
that Trump was urged in
briefing documents not
to congratulate Russian