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If there are questions about the circumstances surrounding Waltz, there are also questions about Trump's Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth...
Timing is everything for Donald Trump.
The time for Mike Waltz's dismissal, obviously, was not 100 days ago.
The national security adviser had signed off on his departure the day the 'Signalgate' scandal broke.
In any other government, at any other time, political expediency would have demanded his immediate dismissal.
Sharing sensitive military information in a group chat is a very reckless error of judgment.
So bad that the information reached an American journalist's inbox - who knows who else might have accessed the information in what is a commercially available app? China, Russia? Iran, the country that supports the Houthi rebels who were attacked?
Initially, Donald Trump defended Waltz as a “good man” who had “learned a lesson.” However, the president will have known that he is a man who has weakened him to the core.
Waltz's mistake put the lives of American service personnel at risk and called into question the credibility of his ultimate boss.
The emoji-filled group chat seemed like that of excited young people breathlessly sharing gossip.
There was a disregard for responsibility at the heart of the government, and this was reflected in the commander-in-chief and his judgment in appointing Waltz from the start.
Keeping him in the job for weeks after the scandal seemed like a kind of admission, and it didn't look good. If there are questions about the circumstances surrounding Waltz, there are also questions about Trump's defense secretary, Pete Hegseth.
Hegseth was also part of the Signalgate chat group and more.
Separately, he shared messages on Signal with his wife and brother about military strikes. Both are involved in the Pentagon, but do not have anywhere near the security clearance usually required to have access to that kind of detail. / Sky News
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