President Trump waited a few months longer than in his first term to dump his national security adviser, ousting Mike Waltz on Thursday as a casualty of Signalgate and for not meeting strict MAGA criteria.
Waltz took responsibility in March for organizing a group chat about a military operation in Yemen on the Signal app and accidentally including journalist Jeffrey Goldberg. But The New York Times reports Waltz was also considered too much of a traditional Republican by pushing for sanctions against Russia in its war with Ukraine.
