US National Security Counselor, Michael Waltz, took “complete responsibility” for the error in a group chat in a non -governmental service that, by mistake, included a journalist, in an interview with the FOX NEWSthis Tuesday (25). “A mistake has been made, let’s move on,” he said.
Waltz, however, called the journalist a “losing” and said there were no confidential messages in the messaging group. “We do not need distractions, we are focused on serving President Donald Trump’s schedule and arranging former President Joe Biden’s mess,” he added.
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White House spokesman Karoline Leavitt said US President Donald Trump has “full confidence” on his national security team.
“We are working hard to understand how the journalist’s telephone number entered the group and we will assure that it never happens again,” he said in an interview with the FOX NEWS. “Democrats want people to believe that we have a crisis in American national security.”
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