'Idiot': Trump insider says White House united in blaming one person for war plans fiasco

Politico's Playbook reports that knives are out for Trump national security adviser Mike Waltz after he accidentally invited Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg to join a Signal channel that featured discussions of top-secret military operations.

Playbook starts out by noting that the scandal is "damaging" to the Trump administration given that is exposes "rank incompetence."

Sources inside the White House who have spoken with Politico are pinning the blame on Waltz for inviting Goldberg in the first place and "half of them saying he’s never going to survive or shouldn’t survive."

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Another high-level White House official told Politico that Waltz should resign because "you can’t have recklessness as the national security adviser."

Another source described as "close" to the White House told Politico that "everyone in the White House can agree on one thing: Mike Waltz is a f---ing idiot."

That said, Playbook notes that it's not immediately clear that Waltz will get the ax despite setting in motion events that resulted in top-secret war plans being unwittingly shared with a journalist, although Trump has been wondering how Waltz could be so "sloppy" with national security.