U.S. President Donald Trump said he has no plans to fire anyone after news broke that national security adviser Michael Waltz added a journalist to a Signal group chat with senior members of the Trump administration discussing plans to strike Houthi militants in Yemen earlier this month.
He said this in an interview with NBC News, reports UNN.
I don't fire people because of fake news and witch hunts,
"Yes," Trump replied when asked if he still trusted Waltz and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who was also in the Signal chat and sent a detailed schedule of the planned strikes before they took place.
I think it's just a witch hunt, and fake news like you are talking about it all the time, but it's just a witch hunt, and (it - ed.) should not be talked about. We had an extremely successful strike. We delivered a very strong and very deadly blow. And no one wants to talk about it. All they want to talk about is nonsense. This is fake news,
Addition
Politico reported on March 29 that U.S. Vice President Jay Dee Vance and several other officials politely hinted to American leader Donald Trump that perhaps National Security Advisor Mike Waltz it was time to "point to the door" after the Signal chat scandal.
Trump's adviser Waltz and Susie Wiles revealed confidential information on Venmo27.03.25, 11:14
Recall
The editor of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, reported that he was accidentally added to a chat in Signal, where he witnessed a discussion of future attacks on Houthi targets in Yemen.
This caused a heated debate in the White House: an investigation has been launched, and there is even talk that National Security Advisor Mike Waltz should be fired.
In turn, Donald Trump supported Mike Waltz after the incident with the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic getting into a closed chat where military plans were discussed. Trump said the situation did not affect the military operation.
Waltz himself took "full responsibility" for creating a chat in the Signal group to discuss U.S. military strikes in Yemen, which was accidentally attended by The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg.