Waltz’s Signal chat woes snowball as Trump admin defends national security advisor

President Donald Trump National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz, has repeatedly landed in hot water in recent days, starting with the restlessness of Democrats for missing the signal chat with high national security officers who have been snowing ever since.

Trump and his administration, however, have repeatedly defended the leader of national security.

Waltz, who had previously served as a Congressman in Florida and as decorated combat green beret, has set fire to the fire of Democrats and critics since March, when the Atlantic Magazine editor Jeffrey Goldberg posted a first -hand account to add to the signal group chat with the top National security leadersIncluding Waltz, Minister of Defense of Pete Hegsetha and CIA director John Ratcliffe, while talking about strikes against terrorists Yemen.

The signal is an encrypted message exchange application that acts similar to sending messages or referring to phone calls, but with additional security measures that help ensure that communications are held with private those involved in the correspondence.

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President Donald Trump believes that National Security Advisor Mike Waltz may have accidentally added the Atlantic editor -in -chief to the signal chain that he eventually leaked to the press. (Saul Loeb/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)

The Atlantic report characterized Trump administration As sending “war plans” regarding a planned blow to the Houthhi rebels in Yemen. Trump’s administration, however, claimed that the classified material was not transmitted in the conversation, and Trump repeatedly defended Waltz in the middle of the fall.

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“As the president clearly said this, Mike Waltz is still an important part his national security team“Trump’s administrative printing secretary of Caroline Leavitt told the media in short notes outside the White House print room on Monday afternoon.” And this case is closed here in the White House, as far as we are concerned. ”

President Donald Trump and his administration have repeatedly defended National Security Advisor Mike Waltz. (Andrew Hardik/Getty Images)

“The steps have been made to ensure that something like that cannot be repeated,” she continued. “And let’s go forward. Both President Mike Waltz and his entire national security team work very well if you look at how much the United States is safer because of this team.”

Trump reveals who was behind the leak of the signal text chain

Fox News Digital has compiled a time tape of charges and anger aimed at and involving a waltz from the first Atlantic report on Curi Chat.

• March 24: Atlantic announces a report that Goldberg was added to the signal chat that claimed that national security leaders talked about “war plans” with each other.
• March 25: Trump tells NBC News to believe that staff at Waltz’s Office lagging behind to be wrong to add Atlantic editor-in-chief to the group chat.
• March 25: Democratic anger over an Atlantic article, including Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, a top Democrat in the Senate Intelligence Committee, inviting Waltz and Hegsetth to resign.
• March 25: Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA director John Ratcliffe joined the annual hearing of the Senate intelligence committee and reports that no classified material is divided into chat and that the signal chat was “legal”.
• March 25: Waltz joins Fox News -Ui “full responsibility” for leaking a signal chat. Waltz added that “100 percent” did not personally know Goldberg before the signal debacle. “I take full responsibility. I built a group,” Waltz said “Ingraham corner” 25. March. “It’s shameful. We’ll get to the bottom.”
• “I take full responsibility. I built a group,” Waltz said “Ingraham corner” 25. March. “It’s shameful. We’ll get to the bottom.”
• March 26: Politico reports that anonymous sources found that Trump was irritated by a waltz for leaks, while the president publicly defended Waltz as “a very good man.”
• March 26: Atlantic publishes a subsequent story that included direct texts from the signal chat, but not particularly included the phrase “war plans” in their title, instead of characterizing texts as “attack plans”.
• March 26: Administration officials have strayed the monitoring of the Atlantic as a “fraud” exposure against Trump. Waltz also doubled that the signal messages published in the Atlantic article did not include, “locations. No sources and methods. No war plans.”
• March 26: Leavitt says that Elon Musk and his team of the Ministry of Government would help research signal leaks.
• March 28: Politico reports that Trump did not want to release a waltz and “give the printing scalp”, according to anonymous sources that are allegedly familiar with private discussions.
• March 30: Goldberg is joined by NBC News’ Kristen Welker and says Waltz’s claims that the two never met or said “they were simply not true”.
• March 31: Leavitt declares that the signal case is “closed”, repeating that “Mike Waltz is still an important part of his national security team.”
• April 1: The Washington Post reports that Waltz and national security staff have used Gmail to perform government jobs. NSC spokesman Brian Hughes, the commentary on Thursday is scheduled to comment on the Washington Post report: “This is the latest attempt to distract the US people from the successful President Trump’s national security agency. Allow me to repeat me, NSA Waltz -The ie -ie with personal E -in -cc.
• “This is the latest attempt to distract the American people from the successful national security program of President Trump who protects our nation. Allow me to repeat, NSA Waltz received the E -Post and calendars from inherited contacts to his identity E -Kosta and CC’D Government for anything from January 20 to ensure the observation of the record.”
• April 1: Democrats on the supervision of the open investigation house Waltz -the use of gmail.
• April 2: Politico reports that Waltz’s office has set up at least 20 different group chats for coordination with other officials. The NSC encourages that the signal is allowed on government devices and that the application they use and the Administration of Biden and Trump: “The signal is approved, encrypted message exchange and any NSC officials who send classified data via these channels is false. It can be used for non -ssified messages and the user has a responsibility to preserve any official record. “Some in the NSC, such as those in the media and many areas in the Federal Government, use the signal application. There are federal agencies that automatically install an application on government devices, as testified at congress hearing last week. Using the sending signals to send uneducated data has been appropriate for those same facts.
• “The signal is approved, an encrypted message exchange application and any NSC officials sending classified data via these channels is false. It can be used for unp “Some in the NSC, such as those in the media and many areas in the Federal Government, use the signal application. There are federal agencies that automatically install an application on government devices, as testified at congress hearing last week. Using the sending signals to send uneducated data has been appropriate for those same facts.
• April 3: The New York Times reports the end right -wing activist Laura Loomer, reportedly presented Trump to a list of national security staff that were non -common and should be discharged.

National Security Advisor Mike Waltz speaks during a meeting in the White House cabinet, March 25, 2025. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

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