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‘Should I Fire Him?’ Inside #Trump’s Deliberations Over the Fate of #MikeWaltz
In public, President Trump has defended his national security adviser. But behind the scenes, he has been asking people inside & outside the administration what they thought he should do.
#CommanderInChief? #Unfit #NationalSecurity #Signal #SignalGate #law #military #OpSec
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/us/politics/trump-signal-michael-waltz.html?unlocked_article_code=1.7k4.mPYh.-3zVC5P5UD8M&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
#Trump told allies that he was unhappy w/the press coverage but…he did not want to be seen as caving to [the] media….& he said he was reluctant to fire people in snr ranks so early in his 2nd term.
But…the real problem did not appear to be his #NationalSecurity adviser’s carelessness about discussing #military plans on a commercial app….It was that #MikeWaltz may have had some kind of connection to #JeffreyGoldberg, a… #journalist whom Trump loathes…[because] Waltz had Goldberg’s number….
On Wed evening, #Trump met w/VP #JDVance; the WH chief of staff, #SusieWiles; the WH personnel chief, #SergioGor; his Mideast envoy, #SteveWitkoff, & others about whether to stick w/ #MikeWaltz.
Late Thurs, as the controversy swirled, Trump summoned Waltz to the Oval Office. By the next morning, Trump signaled to people around him that he was willing to stick w/Waltz….
#CommanderInChief? #Unfit #NationalSecurity #Signal #SignalGate #law #military #OpSec
@Nonilex If he was going to fire him, the coward would have done it via social media, not had a meeting with him. 