Trump displaces Michael Waltz, his national security advisor

President Trump displaces his national security advisor Michael Waltz and another high -ranking member of the foreign policy team of the White House, the first significant overhaul of top helpers in his second term, according to the persons familiar with the situation.

Mr. Waltz had been on thin ice since he organized a group chat about the Commercial Messaging app signal to discuss sensitive military operation in Yemen, and accidentally accepted a journalist.

Most of Mr. Trump's consultants, however, had already seen him too Hawkisch to work for a president who fought and strives to achieve an atomic agreement with Iran as a skeptic of American intervention and to normalize relationships with Russia.

The deputy of Mr. Waltz, Alex Wong, who worked in North Korea in the first term of office by Mr. Trump and is considered a moderate Republican with extensive national security experience, will also be aware of the situation, according to a high -ranking administrative official. The official and other spoke about the condition of anonymity to describe the internal discussions.

Mr. Waltz, a traditional Republican falcon, who has never made public development towards Mr. Trump's foreign policy views, did the Foreign Minister Marco Rubio, argued internally because of sharp sanctions against Russia if he does not agree to an armistice with Ukraine. Mr. Waltz only made this proposal on Monday at a meeting with the president and high -ranking members of his national security team.

Mr. Trump hesitated to take something other than symbolic measures against Russia, although he sometimes threatened to impose sanctions and tariffs on social media.

And Mr. Waltz has been besieged by external allies by Mr. Trump for weeks, including the right -wing extremist activist Laura Loomer, who prompted the president to release Mr. Waltz several employees of the National Security Council for what she perceived as unfaithful to Mr. Trump.

Mr. Trump has deteriorated to relieve someone from positions at the cabinet level since he took office a second time to avoid the headlines about the chaos that devoured his first term.

Mr. Trump released his first national security advisor, Michael T. Flynn, within four weeks of his inauguration in 2017 and said that he did this because Mr. Flynn, a lieutenant general, had held a lieutenant general, Vice President Mike Pence about discussions with the Russian ambassador. Mr. Trump went through four national security advisors in his first term.