{"id":169086,"date":"2025-05-01T11:56:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T15:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=169086"},"modified":"2025-05-01T11:56:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T15:56:36","slug":"mike-waltz-out-as-national-security-advisor-in-aftermath-of-signal-chat-leak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=169086","title":{"rendered":"Mike Waltz out as National Security Advisor in aftermath of Signal chat leak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Fuck-Around-Find-out-as-Mathematical-equation.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-169087\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Fuck-Around-Find-out-as-Mathematical-equation-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Fuck-Around-Find-out-as-Mathematical-equation-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Fuck-Around-Find-out-as-Mathematical-equation-333x333.jpeg 333w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Fuck-Around-Find-out-as-Mathematical-equation-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Fuck-Around-Find-out-as-Mathematical-equation.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mike Waltz, former National Security Advisor, and his deputy Alex Wong were removed from their roles with the Trump administration. More people have been identified for removal in the aftermath of Jeffrey Goldberg&#8217;s inclusion in a Signal group chat. Waltz told Laura Ingraham that he took full responsibility for creating the group and for including Goldberg in it. People were fired for this event as of early April.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>From Fox News:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fox News confirmed Waltz and his deputy, Alex Wong, were ousted Thursday. Sources said additional staffers removed from the office will likely be announced, and President Donald Trump is expected to speak publicly about the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Waltz, who previously served as a Florida congressman and as a decorated combat Green Beret, has come under fire from Democrats and critics since March, when the Atlantic magazine&#8217;s Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg published a firsthand account of getting added to a Signal group chat with top national security leaders, including Waltz, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and CIA Director John Ratcliffe, while they discussed strikes against Yemen terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>Waltz took responsibility for the inclusion of a journalist in the group chat, telling Fox News&#8217; Laura Ingraham, &#8220;I take full responsibility. I built the group,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s embarrassing. We&#8217;re going to get to the bottom of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News Digital earlier Monday when asked about reports claiming Waltz and others would be shown the door, &#8220;We are not going to respond to reporting from anonymous sources.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump held a meeting with members of his cabinet on Wednesday following his 100th day back in office Tuesday, with Waltz attending the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Following confirmation of Waltz&#8217;s ouster, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told Fox News, &#8220;The National Security Advisor Waltz is out. He&#8217;s the first. He certainly won&#8217;t be the last.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Additional Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Colton, E., &amp; Heinrich, J. (2025, May 1). Mike Waltz, other National Security Council staffers out in latest Trump purge following Signal chat leak. <em>Fox News<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/mike-waltz-other-national-security-council-staffers-out-latest-trump-purge-following-signal-chat-leak\">Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Waltz, former National Security Advisor, and his deputy Alex Wong were removed from their roles &hellip; <a title=\"Mike Waltz out as National Security Advisor in aftermath of Signal chat leak\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=169086\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mike Waltz out as National Security Advisor in aftermath of Signal chat leak<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=169086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}