US President Donald Trump has reportedly sacked his National Security Adviser, Mike Waltz, and his deputy, Alex Wong.
This comes weeks after Waltz unknowingly added a journalist to a highly sensitive group chat on the Signal app detailing bomb strike plans against Houthis in Yemen.
A source told the Daily Mail that Waltz’s departure is expected and Trump will likely announce it very soon.
Journalist Mark Halperin first reported on his 2Way YouTube show that there was ‘unhappiness throughout the national security establishment’ with Waltz and his deputy national security adviser, Alex Wong, due to the breach of security.
‘This has to do about competence, not ideology,’ he said.
In March, Waltz, a 51-year-old former Republican lawmaker from Florida, came under scrutiny after he put together a Signal chat and mistakenly included The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, disclosing discussions with top national security officials about plans for a military strike on Houthi targets in Yemen.
Goldberg published his account, and he initially omitted operational details, but after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, and CIA Director John Ratcliffe denied any classified information had been shared on the chat, Goldberg published that information, too, which included the timing of the strikes and the weapons packages used.
Waltz took responsibility for the mistake, but struggled to explain how Goldberg’s number was in his phone to begin with, even as he stressed that he had never spoken to him before.
‘Well, if you have somebody else’s contact and then it, and then somehow it gets sucked in,’ he said to Fox News host Laura Ingraham.
