Signs Of The Times Article RatingMike Waltz, other National Security Council staffers canned in latest Trump purge following Signal chat leak
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64% Medium Right
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-34% Negative
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
68% : " Trump held a meeting with members of his cabinet on Wednesday following his 100th day back in office Tuesday, with Waltz attending the meeting.50% : Waltz, who previously served as a Florida congressman and as a decorated combat Green Beret, has come under fire from Democrats and critics since March, when the Atlantic magazine's Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg published a firsthand account of getting added to a Signal group chat with top national security leaders, including Waltz, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and CIA Director John Ratcliffe, while they discussed strikes against Yemen terrorists.
37% : "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 said from Air Force One on April 3 when asked about reports on the National Security Council firings.
23% : " Trump told the media April 3 that a handful of other National Security Council staffers had been let go following the Atlantic's report on the Signal chat leak, which characterized the Trump administration as texting "war plans" regarding a planned strike on Houthi rebels in Yemen.
23% : Trump confirmed at the time that National Security Council members had been fired, but remarked it was not many individuals.
15% : " The Trump administration maintained, however, that no classified material was transmitted in the Signal chat in March, with Trump repeatedly defending Waltz amid the fallout.
*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.
