President publicly supporting national security adviser to avoid admitting fault in security blunder, say sources
Donald Trump is unlikely to fire his national security adviser, Mike Waltz, or anyone else involved in the now infamous Signal group chat because doing so would be a tacit admission of fault and seen as handing victory to the Atlantic, according to two 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.
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