The National Security Administration of the Trump Administration, Mike Waltz and other staff members, are on the National Security Council, have confirmed sources in Fox News.
Fox News confirmed that Waltz and his deputy, Alex Wong, were ousted on Thursday. Sources said that additional staff withdrawn from the office will probably be announced and that the president Donald Trump should speak publicly about the issue.
Waltz, who previously served as a Florida Congressman and as a decorated combat green beret, has come under fire from democrats and criticisms since March, when the atlantic magazine’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg Published a Firsthand Accident of Getting Added To A sign with top National Security HeadsIncluding Waltz, defense secretary Pete Hegseth and CIA director John Ratcliffe, when they discussed strikes against Yemen terrorists.
Waltz took responsibility for the inclusion of a journalist in the group cat, telling Laura Ingraham de Fox News, “I take full responsibility. I built the group,” he said. “It’s embarrassing. We are going to go to the bottom.”
The white house press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News Digital earlier on Monday when asked reports claiming that Waltz and others have shown the door: “We are not going to respond to reports from anonymous sources.”
Waltz doubles on the praise of Hegseth in the middle of the controversy of the Pentagon
The National Security Councilor of the Trump Administration, Mike Waltz, on the left, and other staff members are in the National Security Council, confirmed sources in Fox News. (Reuters)
Trump held a meeting with members of his cabinet on Wednesday after his 100th day of service on Tuesday, with Waltz attend the meeting.
After the confirmation of the eviction of Waltz, the minority head of the Hakeem Jeffries room, DN.Y., told Fox News: “The national security advisor Waltz was released. He is the first. He will certainly not be the last.”
Wong was the main assistant national security advisor to Waltz, which was detailed in the signal cat leak while the staff member responsible for “gathering a team of tigers” in the initial message of Waltz sent to the cat in the signal group in March, the Atlantic reported.
“Team – Establish a group of principles (sic) for coordination on the Houthis, especially during the next 72 hours,” wrote Waltz in the group cat. “My assistant Alex Wong brings together a team of tigers among the deputies / chief of chief of staff following the meeting of the sit room this morning for the action items and will send it later this evening.”
Trump told the media on April 3 that other members of the national security council staff were released following the Atlantic report on the Signal Cat flight, which characterized the Trump administration as “war plans” sent by SMS concerning a foreign strike on the rebels of Houthis in Yemen.
Trump reveals who was behind the leak of the signal text chain
“Always, we are going to abandon the people we do not like, or the people we do not think can do the work, or people who can have loyalty to someone else,” said Trump from Air Force on April 3 when they asked him about the layoffs of the National Security Council.
Trump confirmed at the time that the members of the National Security Council had been dismissed, but pointed out that they were not many people. He added that he had continued to trust his team from the National Security Council, noting that they had “very well done” and “had great success with the Houthis”.
The Trump administration argued that no classified material was transmitted to the cat reported in March, President Donald Trump defending Mike Waltz several times in the middle of the benefits. (White House)
The Trump administration, however, argued that no classified material was transmitted to the cat reported in March, Trump on several occasions Waltz in the middle of the benefits. Strikes on Houthi rebels unfolded on March 15.
Leavitt told the media in March that the White House had considered the case of the cat leak in the “closed” signal group while continuing to offer support to Waltz, whose office would have wrongly added the cat journalist.
National Security Advisor Mike Waltz speaks while sitting with President Donald Trump at an ambassador meeting in the White House cabinet in Washington, DC, on March 25. (Win McNamee / Getty images)
“As the president did very clearly, Mike Waltz continues to be an important part of his national security team,” Leavitt told the media in brief remarks during a group in front of the White House press room on March 31. “And this affair was closed here at the White House, as far as we are concerned.”
Click here to obtain the Fox News app
“There have been steps to make sure that something like that can obviously never happen again,” she continued. “And we are going ahead. And the president and Mike Waltz and all his national security team have worked very well together, if you look at what extent the United States of America is safer due to the management of this team.”