The Washington Post wrote an article early this morning citing three White House sources saying that President Trump fired now-former National Security Adviser Michael Waltz as the result of a slow accumulation of frustrations that built up over weeks. While the Signal-gate scandal was described as the event that sealed his fate, Waltz’s advocacy of military strikes against Iran, on which he was very closely aligned with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was no small matter.
Waltz reportedly upset Trump after an Oval Office visit in early February by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, when the national security adviser appeared to share the Israeli leader’s conviction that the time was ripe to strike Iran, two unnamed White House sources told the Post. Waltz, they said, appeared to have engaged in intense coordination with Netanyahu about military options against Iran ahead of an Oval Office meeting between the Israeli leader and Trump.
