Trump’s NSA, ‘Signal Gate’ accused Mike Waltz, leaving the posts of his deputy white house

National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and his deputy, Alex Wong, will quit their posts, CBS News on Thursday cited several sources. The Mike Signal Gate Scandal was the central figure, in which the Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg was added to a signal group, where Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared the Yemen War Scheme. For the days, the Donald Trump administration played the leak, saying there was no war plan in those messages – but now, with the news of Mike Waltz being out of his role, it seems that the administration has decided to make Waltz responsible for the leaks.
The speculation prevails about whether Waltz should resign as he added Goldberg to the signal group, which had several cabinet members of Trump, including Vice President JD Vance. Waltz never offered to resign, and Trump also indicated his support for Waltz, calling him a “good man”, who learned a lesson from this episode.
Alex Wong first served as Deputy Special Representative to North Korea in Trump Administration and as Deputy Assistant Secretary of East Asian and Pacific Affairs in the Department of External Affairs. Announcing his appointment, Trump said Wong helped to interact with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at his summit.

What did Waltz say about war plan leak

Waltz took the responsibility of creating a group chat called ‘Houthi PC Small Group’. But he struggled to remember to add Goldberg to the group. He also said that he did not know Goldberg and did not have his number left on his phone. In fact, he gave a strange theory of how Goldberg’s number could be sucked into his phone with his contacts. Waltz blamed Goldberg by calling him “losing” and without proof, that the journalist may deliberately infiltrate the chat.
An internal investigation revealed that Waltz accidentally rescued Goldberg’s number in the name of another contact during the 2024 campaign.
Further harmful voltz’s reliability, Washington Post It was reported that he and his National Security Council (NSC) used individual Gmail accounts for government business, the White House defended a practice in accordance with federal record retention, but the critics argued for the compromised security.