The State Department official will become the fourth person to fill that position since 2017 a week after the president, who announced the appointment via Twitter, ousted John Bolton, citing policy disagreements.
President Donald Trump said Wednesday he's naming hostage negotiator Robert O'Brien, who Trump had monitor the criminal case in Sweden against American rapper A$AP Rocky, as his new national security adviser.
Trump announced that O'Brien will become his fourth national security adviser a week after he ousted John Bolton, citing policy disagreements. O'Brien was among five candidates the Republican president had said Tuesday were being considered for the post, which does not require Senate confirmation. Trump tried to intervene in the case by calling Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven in July and offering to personally guarantee bail for the rapper, whose real name is Rakim Mayers. Lofven told Trump he couldn't interfere in a legal matter.
Earlier in his career, O'Brien was a senior legal officer for the U.N. Security Council commission that decided claims against Iraq that arose from the Gulf War. He was a major in the U.S. Army Reserve.
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