President Donald Trump fired national security advisor Mike Waltz after a month of catastrophe with a chat leak sign exposed to active US war plans.
The dismissal makes Waltz was the first senior official to appear in the White House in Trump's second term.
The riot began when Waltz added journalist Jeffrey Goldberg to a private signal group in which classified military operations were discussed by top officials, along with vice president JD Vance and defense secretary Pete Hegetth.
The information is exposed by The Atlanticconfirmed that Goldberg has received real-time details about a US airstrike in Yemen. He reportedly found the exact target coordinates, weapons packages, and only two hours before the bombs hit.
Goldberg has never hacked anything. Waltz himself added him, who later admitted, “I take the whole responsibility. I built the group,” in an interview with Fox News. The signal group is not official government communication. It's personal phones, off-grids, and used to talk about highly sensitive strikes like this is another Tuesday.
Trump stopped firing but eventually pulled out the trigger
Although the exposure was immediately embarrassed by the administration, Trump did not shoot Waltz in the area. Instead, he told reporters that he would “look” at it, as he raised his frustration privately.
Both CBS News and the Guardian that Waltz has provided to add Brian Hughes, a national security spokesman, but instead dropped Goldberg in chat. The phone contact is that, and by the time anyone notices, the journalist is already looking at the classified data.
Waltz joins the administration fresh from Congress, where he represents the 6th district of Florida until the resignation in January. While at home, he served in intelligence, foreign affairs, and armed services committee.
He also arrived with 27 years in the Army and the National Guard, retiring as a colonel. None of that background saved him once Goldberg saw war plans before the strike began.
Democrats immediately responded. Representative Julie Johnson said, “a fewer person who will put our troops in the way of harm and risk our national security.” The Herb Conway's representative posted, “Good start.” Representative Eugene Vindman wrote that we were “half there,” and called to remove Pete HegSth as well.
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