“Scandal Signal”: Trump's adviser leaves post after chat leak

Media Report that his deputy, Alex Wong, will also leave his post.

This comes several weeks after Waltz claimed responsibility for a group conversation, in which senior officials planned military attacks on Yemen, in the company of a journalist, who had accidentally increased.

This is the first key member of the outgoing administration during Trump's second term.

Michael Waltz, was Donald Trump's national security adviser. He was among Trump's first appointments after his election. Before his role at the White House, he was congresswoman from the sixth Florida congressional district from 2019 until he resigned in January to take over the new position with Trump.

In Congress, he served on Intelligence Committees, Armed Services and Foreign Affairs. He was formerly an officer in the US Army and National Guard.

In late March, Atlantic magazine editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg reported that he had accidentally been added to a conversation in Signal by a user named Mike Waltz.

 

Senior administration officials, identified as Vice President, were in this conversation JD Vance and Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth.

Goldberg says that without classified military plans for US air raids on Yemen, including weapons, targets and duration packages, two hours before the bombs hit.

Initially, Waltz said he didn't know how Goldberg got involved in the conversation, but got “full responsibility” in an interview with Fox News, as he said he was the person that “built the” group.

Sources told the American BBC partner, CBS News, and the Guardian newspaper that Waltz had tried to add a senior spokesman to Signal's conversation when Goldberg unwittingly added to it.

They said investigators found that Goldberg's number was accidentally stored on Waltz's phone as an alternative contact for national security spokesman Brian Hughes.

President Trump finally said he would review the “case.