Trump ousts McMaster, taps super-hawk Bolton as national security adviser

Thomson Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday picked as his new national security adviser John Bolton, a hawk who has advocated using military force against Iran and North Korea and has taken a hard line against Russia.

Trump announced in a tweet he was ousting H.R. McMaster, his current national security adviser. Bolton, 69, who has long been a polarizing figure in Washington foreign policy circles, becomes Trump's third national security adviser in 14 months.

(Reporting by Warren Strobel and Steve Holland; Additional reporting by Yara Bayoumy and David Brunnstrom; Editing by Alistair Bell)

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