{"id":16215,"date":"2025-03-29T19:46:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T19:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/should-i-fire-him-inside-trumps-deliberations-over-the-fate-of-michael-waltz\/"},"modified":"2025-03-29T19:46:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T19:46:42","slug":"should-i-fire-him-inside-trumps-deliberations-over-the-fate-of-michael-waltz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/should-i-fire-him-inside-trumps-deliberations-over-the-fate-of-michael-waltz\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Should I Fire Him?\u2019 Inside Trump\u2019s Deliberations Over the Fate of Michael Waltz"},"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\">For much of this week, President Trump was consumed by a single question. What should he do about his national security adviser, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/25\/us\/politics\/signal-michael-waltz-trump-goldberg.html\" title=\"\">Michael Waltz<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cShould I fire him?\u201d he asked aides and allies as the fallout continued over the stunning leak of a Signal group chat set up by Mr. Waltz, who had inadvertently added a journalist to the thread about an upcoming military strike in Yemen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In public, Mr. Trump\u2019s default position has been to defend Mr. Waltz and attack the media. On Tuesday, the day after Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic broke the story about being included in the chat, the president said Mr. Waltz was a \u201cgood man\u201d who had nothing to apologize for.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But behind the scenes, Mr. Trump has been asking people inside and outside the administration what they thought he should do.<\/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\">He told allies that he was unhappy with the press coverage but that he did not want to be seen as caving to a media swarm, according to several people briefed on his comments. And he said he was reluctant to fire people in the senior ranks so early in his second term.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But for Mr. Trump, the real problem did not appear to be his national security adviser\u2019s carelessness about discussing military plans on a commercial app, the people said. It was that Mr. Waltz may have had some kind of connection to Mr. Goldberg, a Washington journalist whom Mr. Trump loathes. The president expressed displeasure about how Mr. Waltz had Mr. Goldberg\u2019s number in his phone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Wednesday evening, Mr. Trump met with Vice President JD Vance; the White House chief of staff, Susie Wiles; the White House personnel chief, Sergio Gor; his Mideast envoy, Steve Witkoff, and others about whether to stick with Mr. Waltz. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Late Thursday, as the controversy swirled, Mr. Trump summoned Mr. Waltz to the Oval Office. By the next morning, the president signaled to people around him that he was willing to stick with Mr. Waltz, three people with knowledge of the president\u2019s thinking said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">People close to Mr. Trump say Mr. Waltz has been able to hang on in part because some in the administration still support him, and because Mr. Trump has wanted to avoid comparisons to the chaotic staffing of his first term, which had <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/articles\/tracking-turnover-in-the-trump-administration\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the highest turnover of top aides<\/a> of any presidential administration in modern history.<\/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\">And while Mr. Trump can always change his mind, the episode shows Mr. Trump\u2019s willingness to disregard external pressures in his second term, while also grappling with the limits of the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/07\/us\/politics\/trump-administration-loyalty-test.html\" title=\"\">loyalty tests<\/a> he imposed for staff across the administration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Even before the Signal leak, Mr. Waltz was on shaky footing, viewed as too hawkish by some of the president\u2019s advisers and too eager to advocate for military action against Iran when the president himself has made clear he prefers to make a deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">An association with Mr. Goldberg, however hazy, gave Mr. Waltz\u2019s opponents more fuel to feed the skepticism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Some of Mr. Trump closest allies have questioned whether Mr. Waltz, a former George W. Bush administration official, was compatible with the president\u2019s foreign policy. Mr. Waltz had gotten crosswise with Mr. Vance and Ms. Wiles in policy discussions, particularly regarding Iran, according to several people briefed on the matter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In a statement, the White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said Mr. Trump has a team whose members debate each other but know that he is the \u201cultimate decision maker.\u201d \u201cWhen he makes a decision, everyone rows in the same direction to execute,\u201d she added.<\/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\">Weeks ago, a discussion arose among some aides about whether Mr. Waltz was ideologically aligned with the president. Mr. Trump, who has at times been effusive in private about Mr. Waltz, made clear he did not want to start the cycle of dismissals so early in his second administration, according to two people briefed on the conversation. Mr. Trump, who regretted pushing out his first national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, after less than a month in 2017, believed it would feed a narrative that he engenders chaos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After the Signal thread leaked, someone shared on X a snippet of a 2016 video of Mr. Waltz, produced by a group primarily funded by the billionaire Koch brothers. Speaking as a military veteran, Mr. Waltz looked directly into the camera as he condemned Mr. Trump as a draft-dodger and said, \u201cStop Trump now.\u201d That snippet drew attention from Mr. Waltz\u2019s critics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">By contrast, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth\u2019s job appears to be safe, even though he shared detailed information about strike times for the attack on Houthi militants in Yemen in the Signal thread. MAGA stalwarts like Charlie Kirk have defended him online.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Hegseth \u201chad nothing to do with this,\u201d the president said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Hegseth survived a bruising confirmation process in the Senate after being pushed through with help from Mr. Vance, and he has a solid relationship with Mr. Trump.<\/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\">While Mr. Waltz may keep his job, the controversy has reminded Mr. Trump\u2019s aides that the president\u2019s strategy of crisis management \u2014 doubling down and denying, no matter how problematic the facts are \u2014 does not seem to work as well for them as it has over the years for Mr. Trump.<\/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\">When the Atlantic story broke, Mr. Waltz denied meeting, knowing or communicating with Mr. Goldberg. But that claim was quickly called into question by photos that surfaced from a 2021<strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\"> <\/strong>event at the French Embassy in Washington, where Mr. Goldberg and Mr. Waltz were pictured standing next to one another. Mr. Waltz\u2019s allies dismissed the idea that the photo suggested the two men knew each other.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But the reality is that while Mr. Trump has demanded loyalty from his staff, some top officials are longtime Washington hands who have relationships, past experiences and contacts with people whom Mr. Trump despises.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI would say the principle of getting a bunch of yes men and yes women around him is the guiding principle, a foundation of which is not having, or renouncing, any past that may be proof to the contrary,\u201d said John R. Bolton, who worked as Mr. Trump\u2019s third of four national security advisers and then wrote a revealing book about his time in the White House.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cAnybody who\u2019s been around Washington 10 years, 15 years, has all kinds of backgrounds,\u201d Mr. Bolton said.<\/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\">In Greenland on Friday, Mr. Vance, who was traveling with Mr. Waltz on a visit to try to apply pressure for the United States to take over the territory, made clear that Mr. Waltz was at fault for adding Mr. Goldberg to the Signal thread.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But Mr. Vance, who was also in the group chat and has defended Mr. Waltz internally in the past, made a point of doing so again. It was a sign that Mr. Trump was ready to move on, for now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIf you think you\u2019re going to force the president of the United States to fire anybody, you\u2019ve got another think coming,\u201d he said. \u201cPresident Trump has said it on Monday, on Tuesday, on Wednesday, on Thursday, and I\u2019m the vice president saying it here on Friday, we are standing behind our entire national security team.\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\/29\/us\/politics\/trump-signal-michael-waltz.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For much of this week, President Trump was consumed by a single question. 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