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Breaking: Waltz Out at the White House

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Posted By: earlybird, 5/1/2025 2:01:02 PM

Three weeks after inadvertently adding Atlantic reporter and long time Trump foe Jeffery Goldberg to a Signal group chat, National Security Advisor Michael Waltz and his deputy Alex Wong have reportedly been ousted from the administration. Others in the chat included Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Vice President JD Vance, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and more. (snip)President Donald Trump continues to stand by Secretary of Defense Hegseth and others who were in the discussion. Signal is a legal and approved way for government officials to communicate so long as the information shared is unclassified.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: NorthernDog 5/1/2025 2:28:19 PM (No. 1943630)
I wonder if Waltz was a little too chummy with reporter Goldberg.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Kate318 5/1/2025 2:31:59 PM (No. 1943633)
I still day the Signal Chat fiasco was an administration set up to find exactly this.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: red1066 5/1/2025 2:44:46 PM (No. 1943640)
Shades of Trump's first couple of years during his first term. Inside the beltway insiders make their way into the inner circle of Trump just to screw things up.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: DVC 5/1/2025 2:53:57 PM (No. 1943648)
Alex got it very Wong, probably not an error.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: hershey 5/1/2025 2:54:45 PM (No. 1943651)
Looks like Mikey was Waltzing along with the Wong guy...sorry, couldn't resist...:0)
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Dodge Boy 5/1/2025 2:59:51 PM (No. 1943658)
Looks like Waltz got a nice UN promotion out of it. Good for him.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: earlybird 5/1/2025 4:01:52 PM (No. 1943706)
Now Waltz has been nominated to be UN ambassador. Rubio will pick up NSA in addition to being SoS.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: robertthomason 5/1/2025 6:12:40 PM (No. 1943760)
Who reported they were ousted? Maybe folks should use more credible sources. Being appointed UN Ambassador is not being ousted.
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