Trump national security advisor Mike Waltz 'Job leaves' after signal leaf scandal

Donald Trump's national security advisor, Mike Waltz, and his deputy Alex Wong will leave their roles in the White House, several outlets have reported.

Waltz and Wong, the most important advisors of the president on national security issues, are expected to leave on Thursday after they have lost the trust of other administrative officers.

This happened after Waltz had taken responsibility for a group chat about messaging platform signal, in which high-ranking civil servants planned military strikes against Yemen. A journalist was wrongly added to chat.

The editor -in -chief of Atlantic Magazine Jeffrey Goldberg later announced that he had been added to the group in the weeks after the strikes to protect the communications between the officials of the White House.

Vice President JD Vance, Foreign Minister Marco Rubio and Defense Minister Pete Hegseth were among the chats officers who unveiled the national security plans of the highest national security, including the Times of the strikes and weapons.

Trump initially signaled his support for Waltz after entering the white house in the organization of the chat and describing him as a “good man”, who “learned a lesson”.

After the election, Waltz was the first appointments from Trump to his administration and had previously acted as a congressor from Florida's sixth congress district of 2019.

He would be the highest Trump representative who leaves his post during the second term of the president.

The White House has refused to comment on anonymous sources.

It was not immediately clear who would take over from Waltz. Reports indicated that an option was an option for the successor of the US special representative in the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, who was also heavily involved in diplomacy with Russia and Ukraine.

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