Mike Waltz to exit Trump administration weeks after Signal chat fiasco

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Source: USA Today

WASHINGTON − Mike Waltz, President Donald Trump's national security advisor, is set to leave his White House post amid continued fallout weeks after he accidentally invited a journalist into a chat between top national security officials discussing plans for Yemen airstrikes.

A source familiar with the situation on May 1 confirmed Waltz' exit, as well as deputy national security advisor Alex Wong.

Trump had publicly stood by Waltz after his national security adviser and other members of the chat vigorously denied sharing any classified war plans on the publicly available app Signal. The chat was revealed when Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, published a March 24 story detailing how Waltz accidentally invited him into the communications.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/mike-waltz-exit-trump-administration-145812907.html

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Another loser!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Duplicate

[SCantiGOP]

2. .... and another bites the dust

Hope he is one among many in the coming months.

[dchill]

3. Still way too much unbitten dust!

[forgotmylogin]

13. Apparently he is now UN Ambassador?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143451223

[Javaman]

4. he's taking the fall for mass incompetence. nt

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

9. Yep

In the meantime Kegbreath still uses the unsecured app.

[Deuxcents]

5. Who is gonna fall for the second Signal screw up?

[Dulcinea]

12. It should be Hegseth.

They should have shitcanned him already.

[Henry203]

6. 8 scaramucci's

[Aristus]

7. I wonder how badly he has screwed up his prospects for a cushy private sector board of directors gig?

Most corporations worry about corporate espionage. What use having a habitual secrets-leaker on board?

[Prairie Gates]

8. What a clown show

Dude had his job for three months.

[Gm7]

10. They found out Alex Wong was the leaker

And got rid of Waltz for bringing him on as assistant

[kooth]

11. Great! Now ...

Do Hegseth

[drmeow]

14. KNEW he'd be first

not because he was the person who added the journalist to the chat but because he enraged Trump by having a journalist in his contact list!

[Omaha Steve]

15. AFTER a review by forum hosts LOCKING

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