President Trump’s former national security adviser, John Bolton, has come under fire for his use of a government plane to travel overseas.
Bolton demanded his own Air Force jet to travel to London for Trump’s state visit to the United Kingdom in June 2019 instead of flying on Air Force One with the rest of the staff, according to the Daily Mail.
It was a “pretty nice ride,” an administration official said of the flight on the 747 aircraft.
Bolton writes in his forthcoming book, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, that Trump confronted him about his government travel, saying, “You have your own airplane.”
The attacks on Bolton come as the former White House official is set to release a book highly critical of the president on Tuesday, which the administration is trying to stop in federal court.
An official on the trip also claimed Bolton “stole the security detail from the staff bus so that it could escort him across London.” The move left Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney stranded while Bolton traveled with a police escort.
Bolton and Mulvaney got “into a shouting match” over Bolton’s behavior in London, and Mulvaney threatened to take away his travel team, the official said.
