National security
Not just a signal-Trump consultant Waltz should use Gmail
Updated on 02.04.2025 – 00:00 a.m.Reading time: 2 min.
Trump’s security advisor has come under pressure in the affair about the explosive signal group chat. Now the “Washington Post” reports on a problem with his email.
The national security advisor Donald Trump, Mike Waltz, is said to have taken the widespread Google service Gmail in some cases instead of encrypted emails. The “Washington Post” reports.
A high-ranking employee of Waltz on the National Security Council NSC therefore used the commercial email service for agreements with colleagues in other government agencies. It was about military positions and powerful weapon systems related to an ongoing conflict, as the newspaper reported.
Waltz himself sent fewer secret information about his private Gmail user account, but still not harmless, such as its schedule or work documents, the newspaper reported. The NSC spokesman told the Washington Post that he had no evidence that Waltz had used his personal email for such purposes.
The newspaper refers to unnamed sources in the department and reports that it has corresponding emails. Waltz had admitted that he was who accidentally invited a journalist to the secret signal group to the Yemen attack. The journalist, “Atlantic” editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, then made the chats public.
Trump had publicly stood behind the members of the chat group several times, but the “New York Times” had reported that he was not as firmly standing as his security advisor as he publicly claimed. “Should I fire him?” He is said to have asked his consultants.
