White House says Bolton 'forgot' his password due to 'advanced age'
White House denies blocking John Bolton from his OWN Twitter account and suggests fired national security adviser just ‘forgot’ his password because of ‘advanced age’
- White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham said John Bolton’s ‘advanced age’ may be the reason he couldn’t access his Twitter account since September
- Grisham told Fox Business that Bolton may have ‘forgotten’ his password and implied he does not understand social media
- Bolton returned to Twitter on Friday with claims that the White House was refused to give back his account after he resigned in September
- He said the White House did so, ‘out of fear of what I may say’
- Bolton was formerly the National Security Adviser for the Trump administration
The White House Press Secretary denied the administration blocked John Bolton from his own Twitter account on Friday and suggested the fired former National Security Adviser may have been unable to access his account because he forgot his password due to ‘advanced age.’
Stephanie Grisham spoke out on Friday after Bolton claimed the White House had been withholding his Twitter account since his resignation in September.
According to Stephanie Grisham, the White House was not restricting Bolton’s access to his account and the 71-year-old simply did not understand social media.
Former National Security Advisor John Bolton (pictured) returned to Twitter on Friday and claimed the White House refused to give back his Twitter account
Grisham told Fox Business: ‘Sometimes, I’ll use my father as an example.’
‘Somebody who is of an advanced age may not understand all you have to do is contact Twitter and reset your password if you’ve forgotten it.’
Grisham then went on to take a quick jab at Bolton, implying his recent tweets and accusations are for attention
‘I hear he’s got a book deal and I hear he’s been on quite the speaking circuit and charging some high fees for that,’ Grisham said.
Stephanie Grisham (pictured): ‘Somebody who is of an advanced age may not understand all you have to do is contact Twitter and reset your password if you’ve forgotten it’
‘I guess money can get you to do a lot of things.’
This sharp dismissal comes off the heels of Bolton’s explosive return to Twitter on in recent days.
Bolton tweeted on Saturday that the country should refocus on ‘critical national security issues’ and reminded users that the 2020 election is quickly looming in less than a year.
Bolton ended his thread by attempting to pivot towards ‘discussing critical national – security issues’
He said: ‘Let’s get back to discussing critical national-security issues confronting America. The threats are grave and growing. The presidency and control of the House and the Senate will all be decided in less than one year. It’s time to speak up again!
The tweets marked a re-emergence into the public for Bolton, who has kept a low-profile since House Democrats began their impeachment inquiry into the president.
Bolton made his allegation on Twitter, writing from his @AmbJohnBolton account that ‘we have now liberated the Twitter account, previously suppressed unfairly in the aftermath of my resignation as National Security Advisor.’
Bolton said his Twitter account was held hostage after his resignation two months ago on September 10
He denied he has gone into hiding.
‘Re: speaking up — since resigning as National Security Advisor, the @whiteHouse refused to return access to my personal Twitter account. Out of fear of what I may say? To those who speculated I went into hiding, I’m sorry to disappoint!,’ he wrote.
President Trump told the hosts of ‘Fox & Friends’ on Friday morning that ‘no’ the White House had not frozen Bolton’s account.
‘No, of course not. Of course not. No, I actually had a good relationship with John. We disagreed on some things and some methods, but I actually had a good relationship,’ he said.
The White House has not responded to DailyMail.com’s request for comment.
Bolton had teased his return to the social media platform earlier in the day, writing ‘Glad to be back on Twitter after more than two months. For the backstory, stay tuned.’
His previously last tweet from his verified account was on September 10, the day President Trump fired him as his national security adviser.
He has disputed that notion.
‘I offered to resign last night and President Trump said, ‘Let’s talk about it tomorrow,” Bolton wrote.
Despite Bolton’s allegations against the White House, Trump said his relationship with the former National Security Advisor was ‘good’ and denied the claims
Bolton is a frequent presence on cable news and had a contract as a contributor to Fox News before he joined the Trump administration.
His charge the administration is silencing him comes as lawmakers on the House Intelligence Committee want to speak to him in their impeachment inquiry of the president.
Bolton’s lawyer has said the lawmakers must issue a subpoena if they want to hear from their client.
On Thursday, lawmakers heard from Fiona Hill, Bolton’s former deputy on the National Security Council.
She testified about Bolton’s frustrations with a ‘shadow’ foreign policy being run in the Ukraine by Rudy Giuliani, President Trump’s personal lawyer
Pictured: John Bolton in September around the time he left the Trump administration
‘Rudy Giuliani is a hand grenade that’s going to blow everyone up,’ she said Bolton told her during her testimony before the House Intelligence Committee on Thursday.
‘Did you understand what he meant by that?,’ the Democratic counsel asked her.
‘I did actually,’ she replied. ‘That obviously what Mr. Giuliani was saying was pretty explosive in any case, he was frequently on television, making quite incendiary remarks about everyone involved in this and he was clearly pushing views that would probably come back to haunt us. And, in fact, I think that’s where we are today.’
Giuliani was advocating an unproven conspiracy theory that it was the Ukraine that hacked the Democratic National Committee’s email server in the 2016 election and made it look like the Russians did it.
Hill, in her previous behind-closed doors testimony to lawmakers, said Bolton told her he didn’t want to be part of whatever ‘drug deal’ EU Ambassador Gordon Sondland and acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney were cooking up in the Ukraine.
House Democrats are investigating allegations President Trump with held nearly $400 million in U.S. aid to the Ukraine until they agreed to investigate the Bidens and the unproven allegation about interference in the 2016 election.
Bill Taylor, the senior U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, testified behind closed doors last month that Bolton warned against having the now-infamous July 25 phone call between Trump and Zelensky, the call that ultimately led to the impeachment inquiry.
‘Ambassador Bolton was not interested in having – did not want to have the call because he thought it was going to be a disaster,’ he said, according to his released testimony. ‘He thought that there could be some talk of investigations, or worse, on the call.’
‘Turned out he was right,’ he added.
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