
Mike Waltz, other National Security Council staffers out in latest Trump purge following Signal chat leak
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The Trump administration fired NSC advisor Mike Waltz and other staffers with the national security counci, Fox News Digital confirmed.
Waltz, who previously served as a Florida congressman and as a decorated combat Green Beret, has come under fire from Democrats and critics since March, when the Atlantic magazine's editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg published a firsthand account of getting added to a Signal group chat with top national security leaders, including Waltz, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and CIA Director John Ratcliffe, while they discussed strikes against Yemen terrorists.
Waltz took responsibility for the inclusion of a journalist in the group chat in April, telling Fox News' Laura Ingraham: "I take full responsibility. I built the group. … It's embarrassing. We're going to get to the bottom of it."
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News Digital earlier Monday when asked about reports claiming Waltz and other would be shown the door: "We are not going to respond to reporting from anonymous sources."

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