National security adviser Mike Waltz and his deputy are set to be removed as heads of the National Security Council, possibly as early as Thursday, longtime political reporter Mark Halperin reported.
Halperin reported that other members of the NSC will also be terminated along with Waltz and deputy Alex Wong over “general unhappiness” within the national security establishment over how the NSC is being run. The White House, State Department, and Treasury Department have all been displeased with Waltz’s leadership, according to Halperin.
Halperin broke the news during Thursday’s episode of the “The Morning Meeting” podcast he does with former White House press secretary Sean Spicer and Dan Turrentine on 2WAY.tv.
Further, Halperin reported that the ouster would have nothing to do with the Signal snafu, saying that Waltz was, ironically, saved by the flap, which started when he inadvertently added Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor of The Atlantic magazine, to a March 11 group text using the Signal encrypted messaging service where top officials were discussing plans to attack the Houthis in Yemen.
That is, there was unhappiness with the job Waltz was doing prior to the Signal snafu that roiled the administration for weeks, Halperin reported.
“There’s lots of levels of unhappiness and it’s less about Signalgate than it is about… a general belief that it’s not being run efficiently, in an organized way. It may happen as early as today; it may not happen ever, because it’s [President] Donald Trump. But the plan for it is to happen soon, maybe this weekend,” Halperin said.
CBS News is also reporting that Waltz and Wong will be leaving their posts in the Trump White House, citing multiple sources familiar with their departure.
When Newsmax reached out to the White House for comment, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt stated, “We are not going to respond to reporting from anonymous sources.”
In past reports on Waltz, Leavitt had shared Trump’s confidence in Waltz, which she did not do in her statement to Newsmax on Thursday.
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