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US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, 51, took responsibility for the scandal involving top US officials, including a journalist in a group chat on the messaging app Signal, while discussing military plans for an attack on the Houthis in Yemen.
US President Donald Trump offered his full support to Mike Waltz, who, as he himself admitted, accidentally included a journalist in a group chat where classified information was discussed, before the US attack on the Houthis in Yemen.
"I take full responsibility. I made the team," Waltz told Fox News, adding that it was "embarrassing."
Waltz's mistake came to light when The Atlantic's editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, revealed in an article that he had been accidentally added to the conversation by a user named Mike Waltz.
Specifically, on March 24, Goldberg, in an article titled “The Trump Administration Accidentally Sent Me Its War Plans,” revealed that U.S. national security leaders included him in a group discussion regarding upcoming military strikes in Yemen.
The journalist emphasizes that he did not believe the conversation was real until the US bombed Houthi targets in Yemen on March 15.
"All of this requires an explanation," Jeffrey Goldberg said in the related article, but Donald Trump wanted to downplay the incident and offered full support to the US National Security Advisor.
Donald Trump selected Mike Walz, a former congressman from Florida, as his national security adviser in November, calling him "a nationally recognized leader in national security and an expert on the threats posed by China, Russia, Iran, and global terrorism." During the Republican presidential campaign, Waltz strongly supported Trump, criticizing the foreign policy of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. After his appointment as National Security Adviser, he resigned from Congress.
Mike Walz was elected to Congress in Florida in 2018 as a Republican. He is the first Special Forces soldier — he has served in Afghanistan, the Middle East and Africa — to be elected to Congress after serving as a colonel for 27 years in the Army and National Guard before retiring. During the George W. Bush administration, Waltz served in various national security positions at the Pentagon and the White House.
After his election as a member of Congress, he participated in various committees (Intelligence, Armed Forces, and Foreign Affairs) and is a member, along with 18 other Republican members of Congress, of the "House China Task Force", which coordinates the US government's policy towards China.
Waltz was born in Florida in 1974. He studied at the Virginia Military Institute in Virginia. He is married to Julia Nesivat, who worked as a senior administrative official in the Bush, Obama and Trump administrations during the Republican billionaire's first term in the White House. The couple has three children. /Adapted from Pamphlet/
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