Waltz may have a shiny new job - but forcing him out of Trump's inner circle is still a win for MAGA

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : That conversation pitted Waltz against the faction of the GOP more closely aligned with Trumpworld that views foreign military intervention with skepticism.
39% : Though Trump, begrudgingly according to reports, reinstated his "maximum pressure" campaign in February, his Middle East envoy Witkoff is now engaged in the first talks aimed at reaching an agreement to constrain Iran's nuclear weapons program since the Obama era.
38% : He went on to become a QAnon conspiracist and called on Trump to institute martial law during his attempts to overturn the 2020 election based on falsehoods.
36% : "SCALP," declared conspiracy theory-lover and right-wing activist Laura Loomer in a tweet posted after reports of his removal as NSA and shortly before news that he would be moved to the now-vacant position of ambassador to the United Nations.
28% : And in a recent interview with journalist Tara Pamieri, Loomer explained that she had nearly shown Trump a video of Waltz, a former congressman from Florida, denouncing the president's comments about servicemembers following the then-Republican candidate's 2015 attack on Senator John McCain, who had survived years in a Vietnamese prison camp: "He's not a war hero," said Trump, who had avoided serving in Vietnam.
21% : More than anyone else in the White House or broader administration, Waltz suffered under the image of being a suspected leaker -- something Trump and his lackeys hate more than just about anything.
6% : New York Magazine reported that Loomer pushed directly for Wong and Waltz to be fired during her meeting with Trump.
4% : "Just days after media reported that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth discouraged President Trump from attacking Iran, multiple media stories have dropped claiming incompetence and worse on his part," wrote Ron Paul, long an icon of libertarian-ish Republicans, on Twitter, adding: "Is Hegseth about to learn what happens when you cross the neocons?" Trump, at the urging of natsec hawks like Mike Pompeo, Lindsey Graham and others, ripped up the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement known as the JCPOA shortly after taking office last time around.

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