‘Should I Fire Him?’ Inside Trump’s Deliberations Over the Fate of Michael Waltz
‘Should I Fire Him?’ Inside Trump’s Deliberations Over the Fate of Michael Waltz
In public, President Trump has defended his national security adviser. But behind the scenes, he has cast around for advice.
The key problem here is that it's not just Walz making a singular mistake; it's that his whole administration is illegally failing adequately safeguard information and illegally avoiding communications channels with official archiving capabilities built into them
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What's weird is that it didn't seem like he put any thought into firing people during his first term
During Trump's first term there were still Republicans who cared about things like:
- Constitution
- Law
- Good Governance
They've all been purged now.
This isn't even an issue of legality in Trump's world. Trump is upset that Waltz has the number of a journalist that Trump doesn't like, which apparently is an indication of disloyalty. So it's still weird that he hasn't just fired the man