Waltz as a national security advisor and typed for the UN ambassador

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President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that he would nominate the national security advisor Mike Waltz as a UN ambassador after having widespread reports that Trump had planned to repress him at the first major rod shooter since the president took office in January.

The President said that Foreign Minister Marco Rubio would in the meantime replace Waltz in the previous role.

“Mike Waltz worked hard to put the interests of our nation first. I know that he will do the same in his new role,” Trump wrote about the social truth. “In the meantime, Foreign Minister Marco Rubio will act as a national security advisor and at the same time continue his strong leadership in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.”

Trump informed Waltz that he held him from his role as a national security advisor and nominated him on Thursday morning as a UN ambassador, an official from the White House told CNN.

“I feel very honored to continue my service to President Trump and our great nation,” Waltz wrote after Trump's announcement.

Waltz 'task was in the suspension after it became clear at the beginning of this week that his time that the National Security Council headed was over according to a source familiar with the matter. Alex Wong, the deputy national security advisor and other national security advisors, will probably also give up her roles from several sources familiar with conversations, although the timing is unclear.

Rubio now fulfills four roles within the administration: State Secretary, National Security Advisor, National Archivist and Introducing Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

Waltz goes to a potentially controversial confirmation struggle in the Senate. Several people near Trump said that the President did not consider the role of the UN ambassador to be a high priority. This is partly the reason why he never intervened early to accelerate the nomination of his first choice, the Rep. Elise Stefanik. Trump also did not move quickly to choose a new person for the role after the close house majority of Republicans had forced Stefanik to stay in congress.

Waltz was on shaky soil within the administration -after he had lost most of his influence on the west wing -after accidentally adding a journalist to a chat from the messaging app group about highly sensitive military strikes.

After the incident, Trump had thought about releasing him, but refused because he did not want to enable his enemies a perceived victory, and he hoped to avoid the kind of chaos that dyed his first government.

But while Trump was standing by him at that time, Waltz had never really recovered, according to four sources, and he lost the top helpers in the west wing. The chief of staff of the White House, Susie Wiles, was privately one of the waltz most unimpressed civil servants – before the signal fiasco.

After 100 days after his second term, Trump no longer appears worried about the appearance of a disturbance.

The internal influence of Waltz had been waned for weeks, best illustrated by Trump's decision to reject several employees of the National Security Council at the urging of the right -wing extremist activist Laura Loomer, who informed him that they were disloyal. Loomer announced CNN on Thursday that she had previously tried to make concerns about Waltz directly with Trump during a meeting in the Oval Office, in which Loomer called for the removal of certain national security officers. She said she intended to show Trump a 2016 campaign display in which Waltz criticized him, but before she could play the clip on her cell phone, Waltz entered the room.

Loomer said she also targeted Wong and quoted his earlier work for Mitt Romney's presidential campaign.

Mark Halperin first reported the news that Waltz was pushed out.

Before Trump announced his new plans for Waltz, the Democrats on Capitol Hill largely responded to the news of his fall by saying that Trump was after the wrong national security officer. They believed that Defense Minister Pete Hegseth deserved the boot more after discussing bombing in Yemen in the Signal Chat.

“I think they keep the wrong guy accountable,” said Mark Kelly, Democratic Senator of Arizona, and added that he was of the opinion that Waltz accidentally included a journalist in the Signal Chat, but he was worried that Hegseth said “incredibly confidential information about an aircraft strike” that pilot shared with the risk of pilot has moved. ”

But Trump's thinking about Hegseth, according to people, who were familiar with the matter, has strongly distinguished himself from how he looked at Waltz after the signal episode. The president was never able to go beyond the question of how Waltz Jeffrey Goldberg from the Atlantic invited to the group chat, say the people familiar with the matter.

While Trump did not believe that Hegseth exercised good judgment when sharing Yemen's war plan in at least two groups, he believed that his defense minister should not be released after the government had spent so much political capital to confirm it.

Hegseth also supported far further outside the administration by the Maga movement inspired by Trump as a waltz, which was considered with deep suspicion of the base. In contrast to Hegseth, the replacement of Waltz does not include a confirmation struggle in the Senate.

Nevertheless, Hegseth has suspended an internal exam. Wiles ordered Hegseth and the Pentagon to improve their performance and offers a warning weeks ago that there is “no room for more mistakes or embarrassment”.

But behind the scenes, some administrative officers had tacitly spoke about an off-ramp for Waltz in the past few days. Trump has expressed with him on several fronts, including The signal episode. He was also irritated that the congress race in Florida, in order to replace Waltz more than expected, was communicated two sources familiar with the conversations to CNN.

“President Trump lost confidence in him some time ago,” said a source.

Waltz got in with Trump on Tuesday with Trump, but when his colleagues climbed an Air Force one about 10 minutes later, he stayed on the asphalt at the common basis of Andrew. An official of the White House said he was never planned for a trip with the President to Michigan, but the move was considered strange by other areas of the administration.

Asked about the effects of Waltz as a national security advisor before Rubio was referred to as a replacement, several foreign civil servants – including some from the Middle East – commented on who would take on the role.

“All of all, we never thought that he would be the first one [to be fired]”Said a high -ranking western official.

This story has been updated with additional details.

Manu Raju and Steve Contorno contributed to this report.