President Donald Trump will replace Michael Waltz as his national security advisor according to journalist Mark Halperin, citing three sources familiar with the situation.
A spokesperson for the White House National Security council did not respond to a Daily Mail request for comment.
Halperin reported on his 2Way YouTube show that there was ‘unhappiness throughout the national security establishment’ with Waltz and his deputy national security Alex Wong.
‘This has to do about competence, not ideology,’ he said.
Waltz appeared in an interview on Fox and Friends Thursday morning, giving no indication that he had lost his job.
The center of ‘Signalgate,’ Waltz struggled mightily to keep his job despite being responsible for mistakenly adding Atlantic editor Jeffery Goldberg to a Signal chat with with 17 high raking officials about military strikes in Yemen.
Goldberg published the digital messages in full at The Atlantic, ginning up weeks of negative news coverage of the administration and calling into question Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth‘s leadership.
Trump did not fire Waltz at the time, partially because he did not want to give Goldberg the satisfaction.
US National Security Advisor Michael Waltz at the White House
But Waltz’s public humiliation from the scandal especially after his embarrassing Fox News interview where he tried to to explain the mistake damaged his reputation in the West Wing.
