President Donald Trump’s National Security Adviser Mike Waltz and his deputy are leaving their posts, just weeks after the Signalgate scandal, according to reports.
Waltz and his deputy, Alex Wong, will be leaving their roles, sources told CBS News, and it was “made clear” to Waltz earlier this week that his time leading the National Security Council had come to an end,” CNN reported.
President Donald Trump publicly backed Waltz after the Signalgate scandal broke and said he was “a very good man.”
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt also reiterated in a statement at the time that the president “has the utmost confidence in Mike Waltz and his entire national security team.”
Waltz created the first Signal group chat and inadvertently added a journalist from The Atlantic. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth shared war plans with the group on the app.
Waltz said he took responsibility for the gaffe at the time.
Sources told CNN that Waltz “never really recovered” from the Signalgate scandal.
Democratic Senator Mark Kelly reportedly told the network that the Trump administration “has the wrong guy,” and pointed the finger at Hegseth.
“I think they’re holding the wrong guy accountable … I think they fired the wrong guy,” Kelly told CNN.
Just yesterday at a cabinet meeting, Waltz praised Trump for his leadership as he hit 100 days in office.
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