March 30, 2025 (EIRNS)—In remarks to NBC News on March 29, President Donald Trump said he had no intention of firing National Security Adviser Mike Waltz or anybody else over the SignalGate scandal. “I do not fire people because of fake news and because of witch hunts,” he stated, adding: “I have no idea what Signal is. I do not care what Signal is. All I can tell you is it is just a witch hunt, and it is the only thing the press wants to talk about because you have nothing else to talk about; because it has been the greatest 100-day presidency in the history of our country.”
Trump was responding, in part, to a widely-circulated report in Politico of March 28 that stated that on the evening of Wednesday March 26, “following a brutal day of headlines surrounding the now-infamous Signal chat—Vice President J.D. Vance, chief of staff Susie Wiles and top personnel official Sergio Gor gently offered President Donald Trump some advice in a private meeting.” The advice was it might be time to ask Mike Waltz to resign.
According to the Politico account, which has not been confirmed, “The President agreed that Waltz had messed up, according to the people, but Trump ultimately decided not to fire him for one reason—for now: Like hell he’d give the liberal media and pearl-clutching Democrats a win. ‘They don’t want to give the press a scalp,’ said one of the people, a White House ally close with the team.”
That won’t last, however, according to Politico. “One of them offered this prediction: ‘They’ll stick by him for now, but he’ll be gone in a couple of weeks.’”
The article then gave away the purpose of the SignalGate operation, noting the significant parallel to the operation run by the British against the first Trump presidency: “Trump, interestingly, has been in this boat before. During his first few months of his first term, the President faced similar outside pressure to fire his then-National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, after news surfaced that he had lied to then-Vice President Mike Pence and other Trump officials about his conversations with Russian officials during the transition.
“Trump gave in to the pressure and ousted a man he otherwise viewed as a loyal foot-soldier—only to regret it later. The President and some of his advisors felt that by giving in, they bowed to a Russia narrative that would plague the rest of his presidency.”
