Trump nominates Mike Waltz for UN ambassador in major shake-up of national security team

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

79% : "I'm deeply honored to continue my service to President Trump and our great nation," Waltz said Thursday.
68% : Nonetheless, Trump has maintained public confidence in Hegseth. ___ Associated Press writer Tara Copp and Matthew Lee contributed to this report.
55% : "I am pleased to announce that I will be nominating Mike Waltz to be the next United States Ambassador to the United Nations.
50% : From his time in uniform on the battlefield, in Congress and, as my National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz has worked hard to put our Nation's Interests first," Trump wrote on social media.
50% : Trump is believed to be weighing several senior aides to eventually take on the national security adviser role, including special envoys Steve Witkoff and Richard Grenell, National Security Council senior director for counterterrorism Sebastian Gorka and senior State Department official Michael Anton, according to several people familiar with the ongoing deliberations.
43% : Witkoff, a fellow New York City real estate maverick who has known Trump for years, has played a key role in negotiations to end the Russia-Ukraine war and the Israel-Hamas conflict and has been the administration's chief interlocutor in the Iran nuclear talks launched last month.
37% : Trump and the White House -- which insisted that no classified information was shared on the text chain -- publicly stood by Waltz throughout the episode.
33% : Witkoff has expressed no interest in taking the job, which requires hands-on management of numerous agencies, but could, if asked by Trump, assume temporary control of the NSC, according to one U.S. official familiar with the matter.
27% : But the embattled national security adviser was under siege from personalities such as Laura Loomer, who has encouraged Trump to purge aides who she believes are insufficiently loyal to the "Make America Great Again" agenda.

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