Trump’s National Security Adviser Waltz to Leave Soon: Reports 👉 Updatem News

A senior White House official did not confirm or deny the report in comments on Thursday.

President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, Mike Waltz, and his deputy will be leaving their positions, according to reports.

Reuters and other media outlets, citing anonymous administration officials, reported that Waltz and his deputy, Alex Wong, will be leaving on Thursday.

A senior White House official did not confirm or deny the report in comments on Thursday and advised The Epoch Times to pay attention to an announcement from President Donald Trump later in the day.

Waltz was seen at a Trump-led Cabinet meeting on Wednesday afternoon, while The Epoch Times also saw him at the White House on Thursday morning. He made a Fox News appearance earlier in the day and gave no indication he was leaving the administration.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters on Thursday that the administration was “not going to respond to reporting from anonymous sources” in response to reports that Waltz would be departing.

Waltz came under criticism in March after he was involved in a Signal chat that mistakenly included Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. Goldberg subsequently claimed that officials in the chat made comments about U.S. airstrikes in Yemen. Goldberg said that he was accidentally added to the group.

“I take full responsibility. I built the group,” Waltz told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham in late March, describing the incident as “embarrassing.”

Later in the interview, Waltz appeared unable to say why Goldberg was added to the chat group.

“I can tell you for 100 percent I don’t know this guy,” Waltz said about Goldberg.

In response to a question from Ingraham, he said that “if you have somebody else’s contact, then somehow it … gets sucked in. It gets sucked in.”

In an interview with NBC on March 25, Trump said he was confident in his adviser and said Waltz “has learned a lesson, and he’s a good man.”

Weeks later, Trump told media outlets that several National Security Council staffers were leaving the administration following the reports on the Signal chat.

“Always, we’re going to let go of people we don’t like, or people we don’t think can do the job, or people who may have loyalties to somebody else,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One on April 3, referring to the reports.

The Trump administration has said that no classified information was shared on the Signal chat, which included Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Vice President JD Vance.

“I think it’s all a witch hunt,” Trump said in late March.

Hegseth and other administration officials have said that no “war plans” were shared, disputing allegations made by Goldberg on the nature of the chat messages.

Hegseth, writing on X, said the Signal message chain included, “No names. No targets. No locations. No units. No routes. No sources. No methods. And no classified information.”

Before his tenure in the Trump administration, Waltz served as a Republican Florida congressman for three terms. An adviser to former Vice President Dick Cheney, Waltz became the first U.S. Army Special Forces soldier to be elected to Congress.

This is a developing story and will be updated.

Original News Source Link – Epoch Times

Running For Office? Conservative Campaign Consulting – Election Day Strategies!