By Daily Mail (U.S.) | Created at 2025-04-03 16:06:52 | Updated at 2025-04-04 10:55:24
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President Donald Trump has fired several members of his National Security Council team.
DailyMail.com confirmed an Axios report released Thursday morning.
The dismissals come after National Security Advisor Michael Waltz accidentally added The Atlantic's editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg to a Signal chat where top administration officials were discussing an attack on the Houthis in Yemen.
Trump has publicly supported Waltz, a former Florida congressman, in the aftermath of Signalgate, despite some White House insiders labeling him a 'f***ing idiot.'
However The New York Times reported Thursday morning that far-right conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer visited the Oval Office on Wednesday and pressed for NSC firings.
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 has reportedly fired some members of National Security Advisor Michael Waltz's team after meeting with far-right conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer in the Oval Office on Wednesday
Laura Loomer confirmed her meeting with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Wednesday and said she presented him with her research findings. In turn, Trump fired several aides working at the National Security Council
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 before.
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.'
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.
