President Donald Trump will replace Michael Waltz as his national security adviser according multiple news reports Thursday, citing three sources familiar with the situation.
Journalist Mark Halperin first reported on his 2Way YouTube show that there was ‘unhappiness throughout the national security establishment’ with Waltz and his deputy national security Alex Wong.
‘This has to do about competence, not ideology,’ he said.
Halperin specified that the timing was uncertain, noting that the president had not settled on a replacement.
‘I do believe he has made up his mind, but he could change his mind,’ he said.
CBS confirmed the news later Thursday morning.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt declined to comment on the details of the report.
US National Security Adviser Michael Waltz at the White House
National Security Adviser Michael Waltz looks at his phone as he prepares for a TV interview at the White House
‘We are not going to respond to reporting from anonymous sources,’ she told the Daily Mail.
A spokesperson for the White House National Security council did not respond to a Daily Mail request for comment.
Waltz appeared in an interview on Fox and Friends Thursday morning, giving no indication that he was about to lose his job.
Waltz trumpeted the completion of the rare minerals deal with Ukraine as ‘good for the American taxpayer’ and ‘good for Ukraine’ to help it grow their economic development and security.
The center of ‘Signalgate,’ Waltz struggled mightily to keep his job despite being responsible for mistakenly adding Atlantic editor Jeffery Goldberg to a Signal chat with with 17 high raking officials about military strikes in Yemen.
Goldberg published the digital messages in full at The Atlantic, ginning up weeks of negative news coverage of the administration and calling into question Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth‘s leadership.
U.S. National Security Adviser Michael Waltz (L) listens during a Cabinet meeting at the White House
National Security Adviser Mike Waltz speaks during a television interview at the White House,
Trump did not fire Waltz at the time, partially because he did not want to give Goldberg the satisfaction.
But Waltz’s public humiliation from the scandal especially after his embarrassing Fox News interview where he tried to to explain the mistake damaged his reputation in the West Wing.
Waltz took responsibility for the mistake, but struggled to explain how Goldberg’s number was in his phone to begin with, even as he stressed that he had never spoken to him before.
‘Well, if you have somebody else’s contact and then it, and then somehow it gets sucked in,’ he said to Fox News host Laura Ingraham.
Trump gave Waltz as less than enthusiastic endorsement in an interview with The Atlantic last week.
‘Waltz is fine. I mean, he’s here. He just left this office,’ Trump said. ‘He’s fine. He was beat up also.’
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