YahooMike Waltz seen in photos using Signal app amid confidential chat scandal
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
62% : " The Signal group chat between Waltz and other officials became public knowledge after reporter Jeffrey Goldberg was mistakenly added to their ongoing conversation.54% : Trump confirmed Waltz was leaving his role, but said May 1 in a post on Truth Social that he wants Waltz to continue in his administration as the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. The recent photos show Waltz, who had only held his position for just over three months, looking down at his phone while using the application during a Cabinet meeting on April 30.
51% : "Michael Waltz has learned a lesson, and he's a good man," the president said in an interview with NBC News, calling the situation "the only glitch in two months, and it turned out not to be a serious one." Before joining Congress, Waltz served as defense policy director in the Pentagon under Secretaries of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Robert Gates in the Bush administration.
49% : Golberg's reporting, which included him detailing how he could see descriptions of the types of weapons used and the timing of the strikes, led to Democrats calling for discussions surrounding security breaches and the resignations of Waltz and U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.
35% : " Trump publicly defended Waltz after the Signal chat and the discussions involving confidential information were made public.
24% : At one point, Trump said on "Greg Kelly Reports" that he believed a "lower-level" employee was to blame for adding Goldberg to the chat, not Waltz.
*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.
