Trump unlikely to fire Waltz or others involved in Signal chat leak, officials say

President publicly supporting national security adviser to avoid admitting fault in security blunder, say sources

Donald Trump is unlikely to fire Mike Waltz, or anyone else involved in the now-infamous sharing of military plans in a group chat, to avoid even a tacit admission of fault, according to two administration officials close to the president.

Trump repeated his public support for Waltz at the Oval Office on Wednesday, saying his national security adviser had taken responsibility for creating the group chat and for unintentionally adding the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic magazine, Jeffrey Goldberg.