During most of this week, President Trump was consumed with one question. What should he do about the National Security Adviser, Michael Waltz?
“Should I release it?” The assistants and allies asked with the continued repercussions of the amazing leakage of the Sign Group created by Mr. Waltz, who unintentionally added to the thread about an upcoming military strike in Yemen.
In public places, the position of Mr. Trump’s virtual position was to defend Mr. Walz and attack the media. On Tuesday, a day after Jeffrey Goldberg broke the Atlantic Ocean the story about its inclusion in the chat, the President said that Mr. Walz was a “good man” who had nothing to apologize for.
But behind the scenes, Mr. Trump asked people inside and outside the administration about what they think should do.
He told the allies that he was not satisfied with press coverage, but he did not want to look at him as wandering in a media swarm, according to several people who briefed them on his comments. He said he was hesitant to shoot people at the upper ranks early in his second term.
But for Mr. Trump, the real problem does not seem to be neglecting the National Security Adviser on discussing military plans on a commercial application, as the people said. Mr. Waltz had a kind of relationship with Mr. Goldberg, a journalist in Washington who hated Mr. Trump. The President expressed his dissatisfaction with how Mr. Waltz made the number of Mr. Goldberg on his phone.
On Wednesday evening, Mr. Trump met with Vice President JD Vance; The Chief of Staff of the White House, Suzy Wales; White House President, Sergio Gore; His envoy in the Middle East, Steve Witkeov, and others about whether Mr. Waltz will be adhered to.
Late Thursday, with the outbreak of the controversy, Mr. Trump called Mr. Waltz to the Oval Office. By the next morning, the president referred to people around him that he was ready to abide by Mr. Waltz, three people said that the president’s thinking was thought.
In an interview on Saturday with NBC News, Mr. Trump continued to reduce the episode, and called questions about those responsible for chasing the charming.
People close to Mr. Trump says that Mr. Waltz managed to partially adhere to because some in the administration still support him, and because Mr. Trump wanted to avoid comparisons with chaotic employees in his first term, which had to have The highest rotation rate of senior assistants From any presidential administration in modern history.
Although Mr. Trump can always change his opinion, the episode shows Mr. Trump’s willingness to ignore external pressure in his second term, while he also wrestles with the limits of loyalty tests imposed on employees through the administration.
Even before the signal leakage, Mr. Waltz was in full swing, as he was seen as a very sliced by some of the president’s advisers and are eager to defend military action against Iran when the president himself explained that he preferred to make a deal.
Whatever foggy, the opponents of Mr. Waltz gave more fuel to feed suspicion.
Some of the closest allies of Mr. Trump asked whether Mr. Waltz, a former George W. Bush administration, was compatible with the president’s foreign policy. Mr. Waltz had been arrested with Mr. Vans and Mrs. Wales in politics discussions, especially with regard to Iran and their desire to prefer Mr. Trump, according to several people who were briefed on this.
In a statement, the White House press secretary, Caroline Levitte, said that Mr. Trump has a team that discusses each other, but they know that he is “the final decision maker.” “When he makes a decision, everyone is in the same direction to implement,” she added.
Weeks ago, a discussion arose between some assistants on whether Mr. Waltz was ideally agreed with the president. Mr. Trump, who was sometimes separately from Mr. Waltz, explained that he did not want to start the cycle of the separation early in his second administration, according to two people who were briefed in the conversation. Mr. Trump, who regretted the first national security adviser, Michael T.
After the signal of the signal, someone participated on X as a 2016 video of Mr. Waltz, which was produced by a group funded primarily by Billionaire Koch Brothers. Speaking as a military expert, Mr. Waltz looked at the camera directly while condemning Mr. Trump as a black and said: “Trump has now stopped.” This excerpt drew attention from the critics of Mr. Walz.
In contrast, the job of Defense Minister Beit Higseth is safe, although he participated in detail about the strike times to attack Houthi militants in Yemen in the signal interconnection index. Maga has defended the triumphants like Charlie Kirk online.
The president said on Wednesday that Mr. Higshith “had nothing to do with this.”
Mr. Higseth survived the confirmation of bruises in the Senate after he was pushed with the help of Mr. Vans, and has a strong relationship with Mr. Trump.
While Mr. Waltz may keep his job, the controversy mentioned Mr. Trump’s assistants that the president’s strategy for crisis management – has doubled and denied, regardless of the problem of facts – it does not seem to work for them as it was over the years for Mr. Trump.
When the story of the Atlantic Ocean erupted, Mr. Waltz denied the meeting, knowledge or communication with Mr. Goldberg. However, this claim quickly was questioned in the pictures that appeared from 2021 It happened at the French embassy in Washington, where Mr. Goldberg and Mr. Walz were photographed next to each other. Mr. Walz’s allies rejected the idea that the picture suggested that the two men know each other.
Mr. Goldberg said, in his initial story about the chain of signals, that he met Mr. Waltz in the past. On Saturday, he was asked about any relationship with Mr. Walz and whether he had the number of Mr. Walz, he said only: “I will not comment on my relationship with public figures or sources, in one way or another.”
While Mr. Trump has been loyal to his employees, the truth is that some senior officials have long been the hands of Washington and have previous relationships and experiences with people despised by Mr. Trump.
John R. Bolton, who was working in the third national security adviser, then wrote a book exposed about his time in the White House: “I would like to say that the principle of obtaining a group of men yes and the blessings of women around him is the guideline principle, which has no or abandoning a past that may be evidence of the opposite.”
“Anyone around Washington, 10, 15 years old, has all kinds of backgrounds,” said Mr. Bolton.
At Greenland on Friday, Mr. Vance, who was traveling with Mr. Waltz on a visit to try to put pressure on the United States to take over the region, explained that Mr. Waltz was wrong to add Mr. Goldberg to the subject of the sign.
But Mr. Vans, who was also in the collective chat and defended Mr. Waltz internally in the past, indicated that this was done again. It was a sign that Mr. Trump was ready to go forward, at the present time.
“If you think you will force the President of the United States to launch anyone, you have something else coming,” he said. “President Trump said on Monday, on Tuesday, on Wednesday, on Thursday, and I am the vice president saying that here on Friday, we are behind the entire national security team.”
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