Mike Waltz to exit Trump White House weeks after Signal chat fiasco

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : "I was about to show this video of Michael Waltz, and then President Trump walked into the Oval Office," Loomer said, adding that she's kept it on her phone for "many years.
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.
45% : Loomer, on a recent podcast hosted by reporter Tara Palmeri, recounted her recent Oval Office visit with Trump, saying she was prepared to show the president past footage from his 2016 campaign of Waltz criticizing him for remarks he made about U.S. service members.
33% : The Waltz move comes after far-right activist Laura Loomer has exerted increasing influence in Trump's decision-making, including encouraging Trump to recently fire two senior officials on the National Security Council after a White House visit.
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.
15% : With Waltz out, three original Trump picks for top posts who had been serving as Republican lawmakers in the U.S. House are now either gone or ‒ in the case of Matt Gaetz, Trump's initial nominee to lead the Justice Department, and Elise Stefanik, his onetime selection for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations ‒ never made it.
13% : Trump defended Waltz at the start of the controversy, saying it was a "mistake" and that "he's not getting fired."
11% : Yet Waltz lasted longer than Michael Flynn, Trump's first national security adviser, whom Trump fired in February 2017, 24 days into his first term.
9% : 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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