President Donald Trump has fired several members of his National Security Council team.
DailyMail.com confirmed an Axios report released Thursday morning.
The recent firings occurred after a mishap by National Security Advisor Michael Waltz who accidentally included The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg in a Signal chat among top administration officials discussing an operation against the Houthis in Yemen.
Despite some White House insiders referring to Waltz as a ‘f***ing idiot’ in the wake of the incident, Trump has publicly stood by him, showing his support for the former Florida congressman.
Nonetheless, The New York Times revealed on Thursday morning that Laura Loomer, a far-right conspiracy theorist, visited the Oval Office the previous day and pushed for dismissals within the National Security Council.
Loomer came to the White House armed with research that purportedly showed that some NSC staffers were not loyal enough to the president.
‘Out of respect for President Trump and the privacy of the Oval Office, I’m going to decline on divulging any details about my Oval Office meeting with President Trump,’ Loomer told DailyMail.com Thursday.
‘It was an honor to meet with President Trump and present him with my research findings, I will continue working hard to support his agenda, and I will continue reiterating the importance of strong vetting, for the sake of protecting the President and our national security,’ she added.
President Donald Trump (left) has fired some members of National Security Advisor Michael Waltz’s team after meeting with far-right conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer (right) in the Oval Office on Wednesday
Waltz sat in on the meeting and defended members of his team, The Times said.
‘NSC doesnt comment on personnel matters,’ was the official line from NSC spokesperson Brian Hughes.
But CNN reported Thursday that the individuals fired were Brian Walsh, Thomas Boodry and David Feith.
The network said that the firings were directly the result of Trump’s meeting with Loomer, who Trump’s top Congressional ally, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, had tried to get banished from MAGA months ago.
Loomer, however, has maintained a position in Trump’s orbit.
The axed officials include Walsh, a director for intelligence who previously worked for now Secretary of State Marco Rubio; Boodry, Waltz’s former legislative director in Congress who was a senior director for legislative affairs and Feth, who oversaw technology and national security. Feth had served in the State Department during Trump’s first term.
Loomer had publicly set her sights on pushing out Alex Wong, Waltz’s deputy, and the one NSC staffer mentioned by name on the Houthi Signal chat.
She has mainly gone after Wong for being ‘Chinese.’
Laura Loomer (left) poses for a photo with President Donald Trump (right) at Mar-a-Lago. Loomer was invited to the Oval Office for a meeting with Trump on Wednesday, despite some in the MAGA movement trying to push her out
Wong is American, with parents who immigrated from China.
Loomer also floated that Wong isn’t loyal because his wife had worked at the Department of Justice during Obama and Biden administrations and her father was a shareholder of a Chinese satellite maker.
‘I don’t know why we have Chinese individuals in positions of national security,’ Loomer said of Wong in an online video posted last week.
The rhetoric surrounding Wong got so heated, that Republican Sen. Tom Cotton had to jump to his and his wife’s defense.
‘Alex Wong and his wife Candice are complete and total patriots, 100% MAGA Warriors who always put America First,’ Cotton said in an X post on March 27.
‘For three years, Alex worked hard for me until President Trump smartly hired him away,’ Cotton said. ‘President Trump made another great decision to hire Alex as his Deputy National Security Adviser. America is safer and better off with Alex in the White House. THANK YOU for your service, Alex!!!’
It appears that Wong wasn’t part of the ousted group of National Security Council employees.
Greene, the Georgia Republican who also has a history of making controversial statements and pushing conspiracy theories, has been the most prominent MAGA member to publicly attempt to push Loomer out.
In September, ahead of the 2024 election, she called out a post written by Loomer as being ‘extremely racist.’
Loomer said if Democratic nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, won the election ‘the White House will smell like curry & White House speeches will be facilitated via a call center.’
Harris is half-Jamaican and half-Indian.
Greene called out Loomer’s ‘rhetoric and hateful tone’ and said she ‘doesn’t represent MAGA as a whole.’
