Donald Trump axes NSA Waltz after chat group scandal

Washington: US President Donald Trump replaced his national security advisor Mike Waltz on Thursday after a scandal about a leak of the chat group and said he would instead appoint him as an ambassador of the United Nations.

In the first major cabinet recording of Trump's new term, the President said that Foreign Minister Marco Rubio would now act as an interim National Security Advisor after Waltz's departure.

“From his time in uniform on the battlefield, in the congress and as my national security advisor, Mike Waltz worked hard to put the interests of our nation in the first place,” said Trump about the truth, as he announced the move.

But the 51 -year -old former special forces officer and the Member of the Congress of Florida had lived in the borrowed time since the so -called “signal gate” scandal had broken off in March.

At the time, the editor-in-chief of Atlantic Magazine revealed Waltz to a group chat about US strikes on the Huthi rebels of Yemen to the Commercial Messaging app signal.

“I feel very honored to continue my service to President Trump and our great nation,” said Waltz in a post on X.

Trump had repeatedly offered his public support, but behind the scenes Waltz lost his confidence in signal gate, while due to his Hawkian attitude towards Russia and Iran, there were also tensions with other officials.

His position was increasingly contrary to Trump's pivot in the direction of Moscow, when Washington pushed to Ukraine to achieve a quick ceasefire, and when Trump reopened the negotiations with Iran on his nuclear program.

The US Vice President JD Vance nevertheless told Fox News that Waltz 'removal and conversion to the UN could be regarded as “promotion” and had nothing to do with signal gates.

In the end, Waltz took a little more than 100 days of Trump's second term, which was more stable than his first in terms of staff.

The Democrats will now turn up the heat of Defense Minister Pete Hegseth, revealed times that US fighting aircraft would lose goals in the same signal chat to bomb goals.

Hegseth was also reported that he had shared these details in a separate signal group chain to which his wife belonged.

“Now make Hegseth,” said Chuck Schumer, the Democrat of the Upper Senate, on X.

'Scalp'

So far, Trump has Hegseth, a former Fox Newsmith who had a rocky Rocky in the first few months in the Pentagon and showed the signal scandal as a “witch hunt”.

Vance played on Hegseth's job security and told Fox News that the Minister of Defense was “safe” and added that “we have totally trust in Pete”.

Waltz 'new role will also require the Senate confirmation to ensure that signal gate remains in the headlines.

There was no immediate confirmation of the US media reports that Waltz 'deputy Alex Wong would also leave the National Security Council.

The US media had reported that Steve Witkoff, a real estate magnate that Trump chose to have the US talks with Russia and Iran, replaced waltzes in the long term.

Waltz belonged to a number of employees of the White House, who aimed at the right -wing influencer and conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer, who met with Trump to demand cleaning.

Loomer, who is known for the fact that the attacks on September 11, 2001 were an insider job, is said to have successfully pushed the discharge of several high -ranking US security officers, which they considered the president as an illoyal.

After the news of Waltz 'fall was reported on Thursday, Loomer seemed to be appreciated in a post on X and said: “Scalp”.

Waltz showed no signs that he knew about his upcoming departure when he appeared in early Wednesday via Fox News, where he welcomed the new US mineral contract with Ukraine.

Waltz was also present at Trump's television cabinet meeting on Wednesday, where he and other high -ranking officials praise the president.

In the past, the role of the national security advisor has been able to find some of the best-known officials in US history, including Henry Kissinger, in the history of the US state.