Add to the list of offenses that led to Donald Trump removing Mike Waltz as his national security adviser was a meeting where the now-ousted official discussed military options against Iran with Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu ahead of the president sitting down with the Israeli leader.
According to a Saturday report from the Washington Post, a combination of the "Signalgate" scandal and Waltz jumping the gun by meeting with Netanyahu without Trump's knowledge helped lead to him being shunted aside and nominated to be the next United Nations ambassador instead.
According to the Post report "It [the meeting] got back to Trump and the president wasn’t happy with it."
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The report notes that White House chief of staff Susie Wiles was already unhappy with Waltz, and "increasingly felt he was not a good fit for the president," according to insiders
"Waltz’s fate was sealed by his inclusion of a journalist on a sensitive Signal group chat in March. But he had been clashing with other top officials since early in the administration, including over whether to pursue military action against Iran, senior officials and Trump advisers said Friday," the report notes before adding that the meeting, was viewed as, "Waltz was trying to tip the scales in favor of military action and was operating hand in glove with the Israelis."
As one Trump adviser explained, “If Jim Baker was doing a side deal with the Saudis to subvert George H.W. Bush, you’d be fired. You can’t do that. You work for the president of your country, not a president of another country.”
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