• Mike Waltz, other National Security Council staffers out in latest Trum

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    Trump administration national security advisor Mike Waltz and other
    staffers are out at the National Security Council, sources confirmed to
    Fox News.

    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.

    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'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.

    Waltz took responsibility for the inclusion of a journalist in the group
    chat, telling Fox News' Laura Ingraham, "I take full responsibility. I
    built the group," he said. "It's embarrassing. We're going to get to the
    bottom of it."

    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, "We are not going to respond to reporting from
    anonymous sources."

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mike-waltz-other-national-security-counc il-staffers-out-latest-trump-purge-following-signal-chat-leak

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