Donald Trump’s national security advisor Mike Waltz is owed his post on Thursday, according to American media, when part of the government is struggling with a case of information leaks on military strikes shared by mistake with a journalist.
According to CBS, Mr. Waltz’s main advisor, Alex Wong, will also leave his duties. Fox News said that the American president will communicate shortly on these resignations.
An official of the White House did not initially confirm this information from the press, not wanting to be ahead of a possible announcement “.
Mike Waltz has been under fire from criticism since the revelation in March that the Trump administration had enabled a journalist to access the American strike plan against the Houthis in Yemen and their course in real time, in a group created on signal messaging.
Also present in this group, the Minister of Defense Pete Hegseth is the subject of an internal investigation in the Pentagon.
Signal is encrypted messaging, but considered less safe than the official channels usually used for sensitive data.
This important security flaw had caused an uproar and shaken the American political class, even if the republican camp had tried to minimize the case and that Donald Trump had seemed protected his advisor.
In the United States, the national security advisor of the White House plays a major role in the definition of foreign policy, parallel to the Secretary of State.
Mike Waltz was an elected representative of Florida before being appointed to this ultra-strategic position.
