After weeks of speculation about his future within the Trump administration, National Security Adviser Mike Walz is on his way out of his current job, although the president made it clear that he does not completely give up the besieged official in his first government.
Mr. Waltz has been scrutinized to add a journalist by accidentally to the sign chat group, which shares very sensitive details of a planned American military strike on Yemen. Later, it was revealed that he had also Use a Gmail account For government communications.
Analysts say President Donald Trump took advantage of Mr. Waltz to be the new American ambassador to the United Nations, a step he was exposed to Congress questions about reference leakage during the confirmation process. Foreign Minister Marco Rubio will temporarily work as a national security adviser until an alternative is called.
Why did we write this
The first major defeat of President Donald Trump in senior administration officials in his second term indicated his interest in honoring loyalty, even when he removed a trapped official from a major position of national security.
After the initial reports that he was about to expel him, news of the new job of Mr. Waltz – by calculating the truth of the president – was taking some members of his administration by surprise. “One of the correspondents was asked at a press conference for how long, Mr. Rubio might fill this position,” said a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
In addition to the leaked chats, it is said that the president was questioning the position of the foreign policy of Mr. Walz. The United Nations, not a priority for Mr. Trump, is a safe place to place a loyal adviser.
The leaving the additional cabinet may be soon, and now that President Trump has approved a 100 -day mark in his second administration.
In particular, the overthrow of Mr. Waltz raises renewed questions about the future of Defense Minister Beit Higseth, who was already the focus of a number of differences.
Minister Higseth reported the transfer of “operational details that we will carry greatly”, as a senior defensive official DescribeFrom a safe military network to a more hacked chat group – before a military strike, which was exposing American forces – more terrible in the eyes of many security experts. He has also been criticized to deliver sensitive information in the sign chats that included his wife and brother.
When the reference talks first appeared on March 24, Mr. Waltz said it was an “embarrassing” mistake and asked how the journalist got this group. “He suggested that he be part of a” conspiracy “and called Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor -in -chief of the Atlantic Ocean who was included in the chat,” Scum “to write about it.
President Trump said at the time that he would not shoot Mr. Walz. The president added that he “learned a lesson”, describing him as a “good man.”
Analysts say that the fact that Mr. Waltz holds his job as long as he did – and the Secretary Higsith is still in office at the present time – reflects the high priority that Mr. Trump puts on loyalty. The president also does not like to hand over victories to his critics.
However, Mr. Trump did not hesitate historically the shooting at advisers when they became a political responsibility. Although Mr. Waltz was short, she was longer than Michael Flynn, a retired American general as the first national security adviser to Mr. Trump in 2017 for only 22 days.
Mr. Flynn was forced to leave due to the disclosure that he discussed the lifting of US sanctions on Moscow with the Russian ambassador to the United States before Mr. Trump took office.
After acknowledged that he was guilty of lying about this incident to the FBI, Mr. Flynn was amnesty by Mr. Trump in November 2020.
For weeks, the White House reduced the importance of the signal leakage, saying that no “classified” information was shared.
Administration officials gave the same argument after the discovery that Mr. Higseth had created a set of chatting the second sign of the exchange of the same sensitive American military details before Yemen’s strike with his wife and brother, who hired Mr. Higseth to work as his advisor in the Pentagon.
However, among the rank and the file, there was a Extreme awareness From a double standard. “We are used to having a much lower problem.”
As Mr. Walz comes out, a matter is likely to be replaced. Steve Whitchov, a real estate developer in New York, who has known the president decades ago, and recently, was the point on international crises from Gaza to Ukraine, as one possibility. Other names that are floating Rick Greenil, who served as director of National Intelligence of Mr. Trump in 2020, include.
