Mike Waltz isn’t off the hook yet. Far-right political activist Laura Loomer’s recent Oval Office visit led President Donald Trump to fire several national security officials, putting the heat back on the national security adviser’s team — one already beleaguered by the Signal scandal.
Publicly, the White House said it had closed its investigation into the Signal group chat Waltz created with top administration officials to discuss U.S. airstrikes in Yemen. But between reports that the National Security Council has used Signal widely for sensitive conversations and the Thursday firings, first reported by The New York Times and confirmed by NOTUS, outside observers don’t see the office’s problems going away.
“The knives are out,” a national security expert closely familiar with Trump’s National Security Council said. “There’s clearly a political agenda here to change the trajectory of Waltz’s tenure.”