Mike Waltz faces an appeal after a scandal with escaped reports on attacks on Yemen. Trump’s favorite in his place is a special envoy Steve Witkoff.
US President Donald Trump is about to dismiss the National Security Adviser Mike Waltz because he has lost the confidence of other administration officials, he reported on Thursday, Politico magazine, referring to three sources familiar with the decision. He writes TASR.
It is expected that Trump’s administration and Waltz will also leave the main representative of the National Security Adviser Alex Wong. This would be the first major personnel change in Trump’s second term in the President’s office.
A possible substitute
It is not immediately clear who would take the leadership of the influential White House Council for National Security (NSC) in the case of Waltz’s appeal. At present, according to the above -mentioned sources, the main candidate of Trumpov is a special envoy Steve Witkoff, who runs negotiations with Russia, Iran and a militant Hamas movement in Gaza.
In recent weeks, Waltz has become the center of attention for a scandal related to the conversation of Trump’s administration representatives in a closed chat group in the commercial application Signal, where he also invited the editor -in -chief of The Atlantic Jeffrey Goldberg. It discussed the upcoming attacks on Yemen, which eventually actually occurred on March 15.
Communication content leakage
The Atlantic has decided to publish the entire content of this communication: it includes reports of the exact time of attacks and types of aircraft used. According to Goldberg, reports were also revealed by the disrespectful notes of US officials about European allies.
Waltz took full responsibility to create a group to which Goldberg added. But Trump did not call him to resign, but on the contrary, he publicly expressed his support when he called him “a good person who learned,” AP wrote.
