{"id":13275,"date":"2025-03-16T09:53:24","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T09:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/michael-waltz-trumps-national-security-adviser-is-taking-fire-from-both-sides\/"},"modified":"2025-03-16T09:53:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T09:53:24","slug":"michael-waltz-trumps-national-security-adviser-is-taking-fire-from-both-sides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/michael-waltz-trumps-national-security-adviser-is-taking-fire-from-both-sides\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Waltz, Trump\u2019s National Security Adviser, Is Taking Fire From Both Sides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Stephen K. Bannon, one of President Trump\u2019s top allies, threw a party in January at his Capitol Hill townhouse for the Washington bureau chief of Breitbart<em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\"> <\/em>News<em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">, <\/em>Matt Boyle. The usual guests from the right-wing media ecosystem were there in full force, but one attendee stood out: Mr. Trump\u2019s national security adviser, Michael Waltz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Waltz, who posed for pictures with Mr. Bannon, Mr. Boyle and others, had been invited as part of an effort to rehabilitate him in an administration that was only eight days old. He was in a quandary faced by many Trump aides from the president\u2019s previous administration. He had become too Trumpy to former Republican allies in the Washington political class, but not Trumpy enough to the president\u2019s hard-core loyalists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Even as Mr. Waltz has been in the middle of negotiations on a cease-fire between Ukraine and Russia, several people close to Mr. Trump now wonder if Mr. Waltz might be an early administration casualty. Others suggest that Mr. Waltz\u2019s determination to align himself with Mr. Trump will save him from the fate that befell three of the four national security advisers in the president\u2019s first term.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cMike understands the chain of command, which gives him a leg up over H.R. McMaster and John Bolton, who were there to implement their own agendas,\u201d said Ezra Cohen, who served on the National Security Council and in the Pentagon during the first Trump administration. \u201cHe knows his job is to execute the policies of the president.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A case in point was Mr. Waltz\u2019s response to Mr. Trump\u2019s televised blowup at President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in the Oval Office last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Two days later on CNN, Mr. Waltz said Mr. Zelensky was \u201cincredibly disrespectful\u201d and questioned whether he was \u201cready to go to peace.\u201d The day before on Breitbart Radio, Mr. Waltz compared Mr. Zelensky to an \u201cex-girlfriend that wants to argue everything that you said nine years ago, rather than moving the relationship forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Among those dismayed by Mr. Waltz\u2019s rhetoric was Representative Adam Smith, Democrat of Washington, who as chairman of the House Armed Services Committee in 2022 had led a small congressional delegation to Ukraine. Mr. Waltz, then a House member from Florida, was the lone Republican on the trip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe Mike Waltz I got to know was a serious guy who aggressively supported Ukraine,\u201d Mr. Smith said in an interview. \u201cThe Mike Waltz we\u2019re now seeing has done a bit of yoga to fit himself into the Trumpian view of things: \u2018Oh, Zelensky was so rude.\u2019 Past a certain point, it gets to be pathetic. And I know he knows better.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But to close allies of Mr. Trump, the national security adviser\u2019s harsh words about the Ukrainian president were too little, too late.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Waltz\u2019s hawkish ideology and his previous support for Mr. Zelensky have made him a subject of deep suspicion in the administration, according to three people closely allied with the president. Mr. Waltz\u2019s transgressions include championing the war in Ukraine, voicing antipathy for President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and past support of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He has also surrounded himself with staff members on the National Security Council who are aligned with his views, raising the ire of the president. The three people close to Mr. Trump said he had expressed displeasure with some of Mr. Waltz\u2019s early personnel decisions, asking, \u201cWhat the hell is up with Mike?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Waltz, who declined to be interviewed for this article, returned this week from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where he and other U.S. officials persuaded Mr. Zelensky to agree to a 30-day cease-fire. Russia has yet to sign onto the agreement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The National Security Council\u2019s spokesman, Brian Hughes, disputed the notion that Mr. Waltz was in hot water and dismissed the anonymous voices as the \u201cgriping of dark-water bottom dwellers.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Hughes also provided glowing testimonials from Vice President JD Vance and senior White House officials about Mr. Waltz\u2019s loyalty to Mr. Trump\u2019s America First agenda. Notably, none of the statements directly addressed concerns about Mr. Waltz\u2019s personnel choices or the views on America\u2019s military posture that he embraced before joining the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Vance said Mr. Waltz was \u201ctotally committed to the president\u2019s policy vision.\u201d Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff, said Mr. Waltz\u2019s commitment to the agenda was \u201cunquestioned.\u201d Stephen Miller, the deputy chief of staff for policy, said Mr. Waltz was \u201cresolutely and uncompromisingly committed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Sebastian L. Gorka, the National Security Council\u2019s senior director for counterterrorism, offered this: \u201cEight days into the Trump administration, when the president was briefed that ISIS built a massive terror compound in Somalia, it was Mike he turned to and said: \u2018Kill them. Kill them all!\u2019 And that is what Mike Waltz did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">(Mr. Waltz, a 51-year-old former Green Beret, did not kill them himself. An airstrike by U.S. Africa Command did.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Until now, Mr. Waltz\u2019s life has been the stuff of a Hallmark movie. A telegenic, square-jawed veteran with an affable Florida drawl, he was raised by a single mother in Jacksonville who at one point worked three jobs to make ends meet. He joined the Army in 1996 and after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks was deployed to Afghanistan, where he earned four Bronze Stars, two for valor on the battlefield.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">His trajectory afterward was a familiar one. During the George W. Bush administration, Mr. Waltz was a defense policy director at the Pentagon and a counterterrorism adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney. That was followed by some profitable years making millions at a defense contracting firm. He then ran for Congress and served three terms. Mr. Waltz is married to Julia Nesheiwat, a former Army intelligence officer who was briefly the homeland security adviser to Mr. Trump in his first term.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Other details on his r\u00e9sum\u00e9 made Mr. Waltz a hit with Mr. Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He was a paid Fox News contributor before announcing on \u201cFox &amp; Friends\u201d<em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\"> <\/em>in early 2018 that he would be running for the Florida congressional seat vacated when Ron DeSantis ran successfully for governor. In Congress, Mr. Waltz condemned the first impeachment of Mr. Trump as a \u201csham.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Two months after the president left office in disgrace, Mr. Waltz visited Mr. Trump at Mar-a-Lago when few other elected Republicans would. He later endorsed Mr. Trump over Mr. DeSantis in the 2024 Republican primary and spent much of that year campaigning for Mr. Trump, including on Fox News.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Yet Mr. Waltz was never part of the bomb-throwing wing of the Republican Party. During his time in the House, he largely preoccupied himself with military issues, including improving the dilapidated state of Army barracks and funding research into post-traumatic stress disorder among war veterans. Four Democrats who served with him on the Armed Services Committee said in interviews that he was collegial and focused on substance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">That began to change in 2023, three of them said, when Mr. Waltz became increasingly critical of President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and what he called \u201cwokeness\u201d in the military. He held out hopes of becoming defense secretary, according to one Trump associate who was asked by Mr. Waltz to put in a good word on his behalf. But that job went to Pete Hegseth, a former Fox News host, who made an appeal to Mr. Trump at Mar-a-Lago.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump picked Mr. Waltz for national security adviser only after his first choice, Richard Grenell, the sharp-elbowed former ambassador to Germany and the acting director of national intelligence in his first administration, turned down the post in hopes of running the State Department, according to a Trump associate whose opinion was solicited for that selection. The job ultimately went to former Senator Marco Rubio of Florida. Mr. Grenell did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Waltz\u2019s selection as national security adviser reassured colleagues on both sides of the aisle. \u201cWhen you look at the other people who were being nominated for this administration,\u201d said Elaine Luria, a former Democratic congresswoman from Virginia who served on the Armed Services Committee with Mr. Waltz, \u201cseeing Mike\u2019s name among them gave me a lot of comfort.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But providing comfort to Beltway habitu\u00e9s was not exactly a priority for Mr. Trump. Several of the president\u2019s allies wondered whether he had been fully apprised of Mr. Waltz\u2019s past, which included his 2014 memoir, \u201cWarrior Diplomat.\u201d<em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\"> <\/em>Mr. Waltz wrote that he \u201chad no moral objections\u201d to invading Iraq and only worried that going to war there would drain resources from the war in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-9\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump has described the Iraq war as possibly \u201cthe worst decision anybody has made, any president has made in the history of this country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In 2015, Mr. Waltz denounced Mr. Trump\u2019s caustic appraisal of Senator John McCain\u2019s war heroism, declaring that Mr. Trump \u201chasn\u2019t served this country for a day in his life\u201d and chiding him for \u201ccozying up to Putin.\u201d After Mr. Waltz announced his House candidacy in 2018, a Republican primary opponent posted those and other comments on the website NeverTrumperMikeWaltz.com.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI supported him in his race after I vetted him and made sure he was sufficiently hawkish and Trump-skeptical,\u201d said Adam Kinzinger, a former Republican congressman and fighter pilot who later voted to impeach Mr. Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Waltz\u2019s skepticism about Mr. Trump proved to be short-lived. \u201cAt the end of the day, Mike is a pragmatist who is very clear about his goals,\u201d said Mary Beth Long, a former assistant secretary of defense in the George W. Bush administration who supervised Mr. Waltz in the Pentagon and later signed a letter opposing Mr. Trump\u2019s candidacy. \u201cHis entire life he\u2019s adapted to get what he wants.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">By the end of his 2018 campaign, Mr. Waltz had procured Mr. Trump\u2019s endorsement. Two years later, in December 2020, he joined 125 other House Republicans in filing an amicus brief supporting a federal lawsuit that sought to overturn the results of the presidential election.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-10\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">And yet on Jan. 6, 2021, he reversed himself and voted to certify the election results, after what he described as \u201ctoday\u2019s despicable display of violence and intimidation.\u201d Four months later, Mr. Waltz pledged that \u201cthose involved will be brought to justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">By 2024, Mr. Waltz\u2019s attention had turned to a different legal matter. That May, he stood outside a New York courthouse with two House Republican firebrands, Matt Gaetz and Lauren Boebert, denouncing the hush-money trial against Mr. Trump as \u201celection interference.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-11\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Since his appointment as national security adviser, Mr. Waltz has had to execute other gymnastic feats worthy of Simone Biles. Mr. Waltz previously called for TikTok to be banned in the United States, but he recently acknowledged to a Fox interviewer that Mr. Trump \u201cis a fan of TikTok\u201d and went on to describe it as \u201ca great product.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At the same time he installed as his deputy Alex Wong, who was an aide to Mike Pompeo, the former secretary of state who has fallen out of favor with Mr. Trump. He also sought out staff members from House Republicans who have been staunch supporters of lethal aid to Ukraine, as well as from the Hudson Institute, a think tank denigrated in Mr. Trump\u2019s circles as a nest of neoconservatives.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-12\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It is too early to tell whether Mr. Waltz will find his footing in the new administration. If he does persevere, it will most likely lead to further disappointment from those who have already accused Mr. Waltz of undue fealty to Mr. Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe job of the national security adviser is to bring a variety of viewpoints and options to the president based on serious analysis of the challenges we face,\u201d said Charles Kupperman, Mr. Bolton\u2019s former deputy. \u201cIt is not to go out and cook the system and the interagency process to bring back to Trump the answer he\u2019s already given them.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/16\/us\/politics\/michael-waltz-trump.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen K. 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