Donald Trump fired the US president for national security Mike Waltz.
Donald Trump resigned to his administration’s first major official. He confirmed reports that appeared in the press about the dismissal of US president’s advisor to national security Mike Waltz. Waltz will be a United States representative in the UN, and his post will temporarily combine his major state secretary Marco Rubio.
The consequences of scandal
Mike Waltz, before the appointment of a national security counselor for six years, worked as a congressman from his native Florida.
Prior to that, Waltz was a military man, an officer of special forces. He visited Afghanistan, in the Middle East, in Africa, then served in a leading position in Pentagon, and later became advisors to Vice President Dick Cheney under President George Bush.
“It was a great honor for me that President Trump trusted me and entrusted me with the National Security Adviser’s post in his office. There is no higher call than to serve our country’s values and freedoms and the cause of every American security,” Waltz said.
The fact that Waltz resigned on Thursday, they wrote many powerful American media at the same time.
A few weeks ago, Waltz became the main person involved in the scandal with a secret chat with signal messenger. He added the Editor -in -Chief of the Atlantic magazine to the chat, which discussed operations against Hussites in Yemen.
On March 24, Atlantic -Editor -Chief Jeffrey Goldberg said he accidentally added to the closed chat of senior representatives of the US administration.
In Group Chat, according to Goldberg, there are people with the names of the Pit Hegset (US Minister of Defense), Marco Rubio (State Secretary), Jay Di Wence (Vice President) and others.
The CNN television company has written that Trump has then supported Waltz, not to make immediate concessions with his opponents, but since then, according to many officials, Waltz resignation has only been an hour.
Hawk on Trump’s team
Reuters writes that the signal chat scandal is not the only reason for resignation. Reuters, who identify the agency as a person who is familiar with the dynamics of relationships with the Trump administration, said Waltz was held too eyes, and it didn’t fit Trump.
“Waltz is among the” Hawks “to Trump’s closest advisers, including issues related to Iran and China, including US policy towards Taiwan,” said Responcible Statecraft, military analyst Jennifer Kavanov.
In addition, according to the Reuters interlocutor, Waltz was unable to cope well with his main task – the coordination of the work of various departments in the field of foreign policy.
Who will be replaced?
According to the media, the candidacy of a friend Trump, a businessman-supervisor and special representative of the President in negotiations in the Middle East and the Ukraine war that Steve Whitkoff is considered a media replacement, but the decision has not been made.
However, according to CNN, Whitkoff himself told people close to him that he did not want to occupy this post. According to the television company interlocutors, they do not think it is in Whitkoff that the choice will fall – but they do not exclude that he will agree if Trump will ask him directly about it.
Waltz was the first major officer of Donald Trump’s new administration to resign.
Source: korrespondent
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