The Councilor for National Security of the White House, Mike Waltzcould be dismissed following the sensational escape of news that saw him add a journalist to a chat on Signal in which the plans for the attack on March 16 against the Houthi in Yemen were discussed. The President of the United StatesDonald Trump, asked by reporters last night, claimed to have learned from them for the first time of the embarrassing accident. Sources of the US administration instead reported to the politicò that Trump discussed with Waltz of the incident and will evaluate in the next few days whether to remove it or not, depending on the impact that will have the story on public opinion.
The case exploded yesterday when the director of ‘The Atlantic’, Jeffrey Goldberg, published an article in which he revealed that he received from a profile on behalf of Mike Waltz an invitation to join Signal and, therefore, to a chat called “Houthi PC Small Group”. Among the members of the group, among others, the Defense secretaryPete Hegseth; The Director of the CIAJohn Ratcliffe; there Director of the National IntelligenceTulsi Gabbard; The vice -president JD Vance and Waltz himself. In the piece, with a memorable title ‘the Trump administration made me mistakenly forwards its warrans, Goldberg explains that he had read messages attributable to Hegseth in the chat in which operational information was shared in details (objectives, weapons used, sequence of bombings) on attacks against Shiite militants, launched just a few hours later.
At this point Goldberg, incredulous, had no longer had doubts: that chat really included the greatest leaders of the defense and the US services. The director of ‘The Atlantic’ had therefore decided to abandon it, not before having learned other confidential information, including the identity of an undercover CIA agent, mentioned with name and surname by Ratcliffe himself. Brian Hughes, spokesman for National Security Councilconfirmed that the chat “seems to be authentic.” First, one wonders why some of the greatest representatives of Washington power used a messaging platform for the general public instead of the reserved and protected channels at their disposal. It is also not clear why Waltz had added to the Goldberg chat, which in his article speaks of a “error”. And above all, we ask ourselves if Waltz will survive what the journalist has called “a shocking escape”.
The sources asked by politicò make different forecasts on Waltz’s fate and agree on one thing: in the end Trump will decide. An official of the White house It is Trancant: “On one thing they can all agree: Waltz is a fucking idiot”. It is on the opportunity that the National Security Councilor Stay in place that the positions diverge. According to another official heard by ‘Politicò, “half” of the presidential staff claims that Waltz “will never survive or should not survive” to the colossal gaffe that risks putting Trump in a “bad position”.
«It was unconscious not to check who there was in the chat, it was unconscious to have that conversation on Signal. You can’t be unconscious if you are the National Security Councilor», The source observes. Others argue that Trump does not intend to deprive themselves of such a precious collaborator, especially in the middle of the delicate negotiation with Russia for a ceased in Ukraine. A third official has ensured to ‘Politicò that Waltz continues to enjoy the president’s trust, which is then the message that is sent in the official declarations. The republican speaker of the House of representativesMike Johnson, expressed “full confidence” for Waltz, who called “exceptionally qualified for the assignment, born for that assignment”.
The spokesperson of the White houseKaroline Leavitt, in a note, observed that “the attacks on the Houthi, as the president said, were of great success and effectiveness” and guaranteed that Trump “continues to store the utmost trust” in Waltz. THE Democratswho remember very well of the violent attacks on Hillary Clinton for the use of private email when he was secretary of state, they asked for an immediate investigation. The senator of the Delaware Chris Coon, head of the democratic representation in Budget Commissionhe even claimed that all chat participants “committed a crime that, even if accidental, would normally predict prison”.
In the most radical and isolationist wing of the ‘Gop’ there are those who, for his part, believe that the familiarity between Goldberg and Waltz shows that the latter, former councilor of the former vice president Dick Cheney, has never betrayed his past new faith and converted to the verb ‘magà for convenience. The hard and pure Trumpians, supports more than a USA head, therefore see their suspicions confirmed on Waltz and intend to take the opportunity to ask for their heads. As for the President’s reaction, the sources of ‘Politicò suggest that Trump, rather than for Waltz’s gaffe, is irritated for the words attributed to Vance and Hegseth, who discussed the opportunity to delay the intervention in Yemen by a month to evaluate the internal impact and not to immediately do a favor to the European vitupers, the main beneficiaries of an end of the attacks by the Houthi to the Mercantili in the Red Sea. Vance’s bad consideration for the allies of the Old Continent, already evident in the very hard intervention at the Munich conference conference, becomes even more explicit.
«If you think we should do it, let’s go. But I hate saving Europe again, “writes the vice -president in a message revealed by ‘The Atlantic’. «I agree completely with your contempt for the European Scroccone. It is pathetic. But Mike (Waltz, Nda) is right, we are the only ones on the planet (from our side of the barricade) who can do it », Hegseth replies. Vance does not stop there. “I’m not sure that the president realizes how inconsistent this is with his current message on Europe,” he asserts the vice -president. Words that must not have been welcomed well by Trump, who does not like to be contradicted and, according to numerous reconstructions, nourishes growing impatience for the protagonism and the controversy of vance’s controversy, not aimed, as in the case of the president, to appear a better agreement at the end of a negotiation. Trump, is the reading of the ‘Guardian’, does not want to cut the cords with the Europeans but is making the big voice to finally get the adequate figures in defense. Vance, on the other hand, seems to feed an antipathy of principle against the current structure of the Atlantic alliance. Differences of no small importance, in the approach to foreign policy, that the involuntary revelations have made unequivocal