Mike Waltz Is Losing Support Inside the White House

[Timber Rattler]

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/mike-waltz-is-losing-support-inside-the-white-house-2b17459c

Despite repeated messages of support by Trump, Waltz has lost sway with the president and the backing of senior aides within the White House, officials said, just as the administration struggles to broker peace deals and faces the threat of further war in the Middle East.

For Trump, Waltz’s biggest sin wasn’t starting a Signal chat to coordinate strikes on the Houthis in Yemen, or even posting Israel-provided intelligence onto an unclassified network, it was having the Atlantic magazine’s editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg’s number in his phone and inadvertently adding him to the conversation.

Trump’s anger spilled over into many private discussions last week, including multiple calls with allies in which he unloaded expletives and blamed Waltz for the administration’s first big national security crisis. Trump spoke to Vice President JD Vance, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles about whether Waltz should be dismissed.

But on Thursday, Trump let Waltz know in a one-on-one meeting that the national security adviser would keep his job. Trump decided to give Waltz a reprieve during that discussion. He didn’t want the media and Democrats to claim a scalp so early in his second administration, according to people close to Trump, as that would admit wrongdoing.

Even before the most recent episode, Waltz had annoyed many of his colleagues by seeming imperious and expressing views that were out of line with Trump’s agenda, two administration officials said.

Some administration officials also began circulating clips on Friday of Waltz making particularly critical comments of Trump in the past. One was a 2016 video of Waltz criticizing Trump for not serving in the Vietnam War and urging voters to “stop Trump now.”

“All this has reminded everybody of those facts,” said a senior administration official, “and those were things that were best conveniently forgotten.”

EXCERPT

Which is exactly what I've been saying...the real sin was not in using the Signal app but in having Goldberg in his contacts list, which means that Waltz is a leaker.

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https://twitter.com/LauraLoomer/status/1906150345387962418

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https://twitter.com/theUSAwatch/status/1905015467430842376

[Timber Rattler]

More Laura Loomer conspiracy theory nonsense...the fact of the matter is that Waltz is one of Goldberg's sources, is obviously a leaker, and they use Signal to communicate with each other. 

Waltz just got caught in the worst possible way.

Maybe a better question is why Trump hired Waltz to begin with?  We were told that Trump's selections for his A-team this go around were the best of the best!

Guess not.