{"id":52838,"date":"2025-05-04T07:13:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T15:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=52838"},"modified":"2025-05-04T07:13:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T15:13:04","slug":"agent-waltz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/04\/agent-waltz\/","title":{"rendered":"Agent Waltz?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post<\/em> is reporting<\/a> that recently-ousted National Security Advisor Mike Waltz may have been involved in activities even more nefarious than inviting journalists onto highly sensitive Signal group chats. It appears that what really angered President Trump is less Waltz\u2019s incompetence (or worse) in keeping sensitive military communications secure, but rather his taking an active role in doing the bidding of a foreign government.<\/p>\n

As the Post<\/em> reported, in advance of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu\u2019s February visit to the United States the US National Security Advisor to President Trump\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2026appeared to have engaged in intense coordination with Netanyahu about military options against Iran ahead of an Oval Office meeting between the Israeli leader and Trump, the two people said.<\/em><\/p>\n

That means that Mike Waltz was working with a foreign government to maneuver President Trump into a situation where war seemed the only option left to deal with Iran. That kind of manipulation is a classic neocon move and one that Waltz\u2019s ideological allies managed with great success against President George W. Bush regarding Iraq.<\/p>\n

According to one insider quoted in the article, Waltz, \u201cwanted to take U.S. policy in a direction Trump wasn\u2019t comfortable with because the US hadn\u2019t attempted a diplomatic solution.\u201d<\/p>\n

That means the former NSA was working with a foreign leader to limit <\/em>the diplomatic and military options his boss could choose from, i.e. he was working to hobble the United States so as to achieve an objective of a foreign regime.<\/p>\n

The WaPo<\/em> piece continues\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2018If Jim Baker was doing a side deal with the Saudis to subvert George H.W. Bush, you\u2019d be fired,\u2019 a Trump adviser said, referring to Bush\u2019s secretary of state. \u2018You can\u2019t do that. You work for the president of your country, not a president of another country.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

To his credit, President Trump recognized that Waltz was blowing Bibi\u2019s smoke at him and rather than bite at the trap sprung for him the President saw through the game and became annoyed possibly at both of them. The fiasco one month later, where Waltz claimed that neocon scribbler Jeffrey Goldberg\u2019s contact information had somehow been \u201csucked up\u201d into his phone and then presumably spit out again when it came time to invite top Administration officials onto a call to discuss military strikes on Yemen, may have been the straw that broke Trump\u2019s waning patience in the man.<\/p>\n

Last month, the Grayzone published<\/a> leaked audio of Israel lobby AIPAC\u2019s CEO, Elliott Brandt, \u201cdescribing how his organization has cultivated influence with three top national security officials in the Trump administration \u2013 Secretary of State Marco Rubio, National Security Director Mike Waltz, and CIA Director John Ratcliffe \u2013 and how it believes it can gain \u2018access\u2019 to their internal discussions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Was the Waltz\/Netanyahu trap for Trump the result of this \u201ccultivated influence\u201d that Brandt is bragging about? And if so, how much deeper does it go?<\/p>\n

Whatever the case, it\u2019s lucky for Waltz that he was \u201conly\u201d acting as an agent for our Greatest Ally\u2122 and Only Democracy in the Middle East\u2122. Otherwise he\u2019d be soon enjoying the hospitality of Bukele\u2019s All Male B&B<\/a> rather than the rather more luxurious digs at 50 United Nations Plaza<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Reprinted from the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Daniel McAdams is Executive Director of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity and co-Producer\/co-Host, Ron Paul Liberty Report. Daniel served as the foreign affairs, civil liberties, and defense\/intel policy advisor to U.S. Congressman Ron Paul, MD (R-Texas) from 2001 until Dr. Paul\u2019s retirement at the end of 2012. From 1993-1999 he worked as a journalist based in Budapest, Hungary, and traveled through the former communist bloc as a human rights monitor and election observer.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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