Mike Waltz to exit Trump administration weeks after Signal chat fiasco

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51% : Mike Waltz to exit Trump administration weeks after Signal chat fiasco Cybele Mayes-Osterman and Joey Garrison, USA TODAY Updated May 1, 2025 at 4:58 PM Copied WASHINGTON - Mike Waltz, President Donald Trump's national security advisor, is set to leave his White House post amid continued fallout weeks after he accidentally invited a journalist into a chat between top national security officials discussing plans for Yemen airstrikes.
50% : Waltz mistakenly added Goldberg, a longtime national security journalist, to a chat on the encrypted messaging app Signal in mid-March that also included Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, and Vice President JD Vance, among other members of the Trump administration's top echelon.
28% : Trump had publicly stood by Waltz after his national security adviser and other members of the chat vigorously denied sharing any classified war plans on the publicly available app Signal.
21% : Trump defended Waltz at the start of the controversy, saying it was a "mistake" and that "he's not getting fired."
8% : Yet behind-the scenes, the embarrassing mishap ‒ which even Trump started referring to as "Signalgate" ‒ took a toll on the relationship between Trump and Waltz, a former Republican congressman from Florida.

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