President Donald Trump defended his National Security Adviser Mike Waltz in the wake of the Signal app scandal, calling him a 'good man' who 'learned a lesson.'
His support comes amid calls for the national security adviser to step down, with one official calling him a 'f***ing idiot.' Waltz started the text chain to discuss the plans to bomb the Houthis in Yemen and added The Atlantic magazine's editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg.
'Everyone in the White House can agree on one thing: Mike Waltz is a f***ing idiot,' the source, identified as a 'person close to the White House', bluntly told Politico.
Trump, however, told NBC News: 'Michael Waltz has learned a lesson, and he's a good man.'
