Donald Trump’s national security adviser has been weakened since the “signalgate”, the case of the leaks of military plans in Yemen. Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State, will take temporary work.
Weakened since last month due to the business of confidential military information leaks, Mike Waltz will no longer be the national security advisor to Donald Trump. The American president announced on Thursday, May 1, his appointment as an appointment of the United States on Thursday, May 1 to the United Nations (UN), in a message on his Truth Social network.
“Mike Waltz worked hard to prioritize the interests of our nation. I know that he will do the same thing in his new functions,” wrote the American president about his advisor. His Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, will ensure interim the role of national security advisor, says Donald Trump.
A first major reshuffle
Mike Waltz had been under pressure since a journalist for The Atlantic magazine uncovered a major security flaw by revealing that he had been added to a discussion group about imminent American strikes against the Houthis rebels in Yemen, on signal messaging.
This announced change of role of the former Republican elected representative of Florida, 51, has been the first major reshuffle in the team of Donald Trump since his return to the White House a hundred days ago. His first mandate had been shaken by more movements among his collaborators.
Interviewed by Fox News early Wednesday morning, Mike Waltz showed no sign of his imminent departure when he welcomed the agreement on the exploitation of natural resources signed between the United States and Ukraine.
-“No one thought it could be done. President Trump said, ‘Do it!’,” He said.
The advisor was also present the day before around the table of the last council of ministers – broadcast live from start to finish.
Steve Witkoff pressed to succeed Mike Waltz
Mike Waltz, former Special Forces officer of the American army, had taken on the “responsibility” of the military plans leaks in Yemen explaining that he had created the group on signal. The Trump government and other senior American officials, including the Minister of Defense Pete Hegseth, US Vice-President JD Vance, or the CIA owners were included.
The members of the group notably shared the planned timing of imminent American air attacks on targets in Yemen and their course in real time. The case also weakened the Minister of Defense Pete Hegseth. The former presenter of the Fox News channel is also the subject of an internal investigation of the Pentagon on this subject.
Donald Trump had publicly posted his support for his entourage involved in the conversation after the revelation of this “signalgate”.
Steve Witkoff, whose republican president made his emissary for negotiations with Russia, on the one hand, and Iran and his nuclear program, on the other hand, is well placed to succeed Mike Waltz, according to the American press. Four national security advisers had succeeded over the first mandate of the New York billionaire.
