Trump’s NSA, ‘Signal Gate’ accused Mike Waltz, his deputy leaving White House posts
National security adviser Mike Waltz and his deputy, Alex Wong, will be leaving their posts, CBS News reported Thursday, citing multiple sources. Mike was the central figure of the Signal Gate scandal, in which Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg was added to a Signal group where defense secretary Pete Hegseth shared the Yemen war plan. For days, the Donald Trump administration played down 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 the administration has decided to make Waltz responsible for the leak.
Speculations were rife about whether Waltz should resign as he added Goldberg to the Signal group which had several of Trump’s cabinet members, including vice president JD Vance. Waltz never offered to resign and Trump also signaled his support for Waltz by calling him a “good man” who learned a lesson from this episode.
Alex Wong served in the first Trump administration as deputy special representative for North Korea and also as deputy assistant secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs at the State Department. In announcing his appointment, Trump said that Wong helped negotiate his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
