Alert – Trump’s embattled national security aide Mike Waltz breaks silence after firing whiplash: Live updates

Jon Michael Raasch, Political Reporter for DailyMail.com

Provocative far-right commentator Laura Loomer hinted that she may have helped oust Mike Waltz from his national security advisor role.

Loomer told journalist Tara Palmeri that she had sounded the alarm about Waltz’s anti-Trump past and claimed he hadn’t vetted his staff to weed out liberals.

Waltz has been a lightning rod for controversy in the still-nascent second Trump administration. He has been to blame for accidentally leaking military plans to the press via an unfortunate Signal group chat.

He was axed as national security advisor on Thursday and was soon after nominated by the president to become ambassador to the U.N.

The ‘Loomer Unleashed’ host told Palmeri all about the dirt she had on the former NSC boss.

Jon Michael Raasch, Political Reporter for DailyMail.com

Speaking with Fox News’ Bret Baier, VP JD Vance told the host that after relentless U.S. strikes on Houthi forces in Yemen, the situation appears to be ‘in a good place.’

‘They’ve been bombed,’ Vance said. ‘They’ve recognized that there are serious consequences to firing on American and other ships.’

‘And I actually think we’re in a good place for the Houthis to stop attacking civilian vessels, to go back to doing whatever it is they were doing before they were attacking civilian vessels.’

Houthi forces in Yemen have been attacking shipping vessels off the coast. U.K. forces recently teamed up with U.S. forces to strike the rebel group.

Jon Michael Raasch, Political Reporter for DailyMail.com

Progressive ‘Squad’ member Ilhan Omar did not hold back on a reporter when asked a simple question about Democrats pushing back on Donald Trump’s immigration policies.

Omar was confronted about the many Democrats, including Sen. Chris Van Hollen, who have taken trips to El Salvador to visit a suspected MS-13 gangster who was deported by Trump.

‘Do you think more of your Democratic colleagues should be traveling to El Salvador to advocate on behalf of [Kilmar] Abrego Garcia?’ Daily Caller News Foundation journalist Myles Morell asked the Minnesota Democrat.

Morell filmed his question as Omar, 42, approached the Capitol from the sidewalk.

The congresswoman, who is originally from Somalia, has been an outspoken advocate for migrants since being in Congress.

Jon Michael Raasch, Political Reporter for DailyMail.com

The near-constant Republican infighting in the House of Representatives has opened up a new front.

Speaker Mike Johnson is now defending his flank from New York Republican Elise Stefanik because the New York congresswoman is upset at him for seemingly tanking her nomination to be Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations.

The president pulled her bid after consulting with her and the speaker via conference call, a New York Times report details.

Aides close to Stefanik blame Johnson for delaying her nomination, slow-walking the process until her nomination was killed, the report states.

Johnson has publicly aired his stress over the razor-thin House Republican majority. Stefanik staying in the House helps Johnson pad his votes that will certainly come down to a few votes as he works to pass Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ this year.

Losing out on the U.N. role means the Albany native missed her chance, at least for now, to live in the luxurious ambassador’s $15 million penthouse residence.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said his team found a dossier that the previous administration was keeping on one of President Donald Trump ‘s top officials.

The public revelation made at Wednesday’s Cabinet meeting sparked immediate outrage over those furious over what the claim was former President Joe Biden ‘s ‘spy’ activity on American citizens and Trump allies.

Rubio said that there was a whole office dedicated within Biden’s State Department to monitoring Americans public and social media activity with the purpose of identifying individuals as ‘vectors of misinformation.’

Rubio said:

We had an office in the Department of State whose job it was to censor Americans. I’m not gonna say who it is, I’ll leave it up to them. There’s at least one person at this table today who had a dossier in that building of social media posts to identify them as purveyors of disinformation.

President Donald Trump announced a surprise soft landing for Mike Waltz hours after news broke that he was being forced out as national security adviser.

Waltz, who had a key role in the ‘Signalgate’ scandal after adding an editor to a group chat about a military strike on the Houthis, is Trump’s new pick to be ambassador to the United Nations.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Progressive Rep. Ilhan Omar told a reporter for a right-wing outlet to ‘f*** off’ when they tried to ask her a question about whether she planned to go to El Savlador to advocate for a criminal deported by President Donald Trump.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has discouraged Democrats from taking trips to El Salvador after multiple went to stand up for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was suspected of human trafficking.

But a question regarding this led Omar to lash out and fling profanities at the reporter.

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By Geoff Earle, Deputy U.S. Political Editor

President Donald Trump held a National Day of Prayer event at the White House where he said he was ‘bringing back religion’ in the country, tore into the ‘radical left’ and repeatedly claimed he won a ‘rigged’ election in 2020.

Trump spoke to a crowd that included faith leaders and political supporters in the Rose Garden. The mercury was at 82 on a sunny day, and attendees stood for the first 20 minutes before the president finally noticed their situation.

‘Sit down, please – I didn’t even know you were standing. You stood so long. That’s a great honor. If Biden were up here you would have been seated – you might have never stood up. No, that’s a great honor, I didn’t realize,’ Trump said.

A military aide brought water to one guest, during a speech where Trump spoke for 45 minutes about topics ranging from taxes to faith before a series of faith leaders including White House faith advisor Paula White took the mic.

‘People of faith have never been allowed in the White House,’ Trump claimed. ‘We’ll probably be sued tomorrow, because they’ve got to say: “Church, separation of church and state – can’t do that.”’

Trump said in his first term Iran had been ready to make a deal, ‘except for the election didn’t turn out the way it should. It was a rigged election. Might as well say it. Totally rigged. Disgraceful.’ Trump told the parents of a hostage that ‘Your son would be home.’

He brought it up his 2020 loss again when describing the upcoming World Cup, the Olympics, and a Flag Day event – which he noted is also his birthday. ‘Had I not had a rigged election, had the election not been rigged, I would have been out of here. I would have been gone. The Radical Left would have said, we got rid of him finally,’ Trump said. Instead, he is back for those long-scheduled events.

Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly said he wasn’t expecting reporting that National Security Advisor Mike Waltz could be the first Cabinet secretary to be ousted from President Donald Trump’s administration.

‘I was surprised to see this, because I think they fired the wrong guy,’ Kelly told Fox News on Thursday.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said she would not comment on ‘reporting from anonymous sources.’

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries responded to exclusive Daily Mail reporting that President Donald Trump is looking to oust National Security Advisor Mike Waltz.

‘The National Security Advisor Waltz is out,’ the New York Democrat told reporters on Thursday. ‘He’s the first. He certainly won’t be the last.’

It comes after a March candal where Waltz added the editor of The Atlantic to a group chat discussing classified plans for a surprise military attack on a Houthi leader.

It appears that two months later, Trump is now looking to replace Waltz.

Elon Musk reflected on his 100 days in government service, which included playing video games in his West Wing office, sleeping in the Lincoln Bedroom, raiding the White House freezer for Haagen-Dazs, and radically reshaping the size and scope of the federal government.

‘In the grand scheme of things, I think we’ve been effective. Not as effective as I´d like. I think we could be more effective,’ Musk said in an interview with reporters in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. ‘But we’ve made progress.’

He called his Department of Government Efficiency a way of life and compared himself to Buddha, arguing his direct involvement isn’t needed for the work to continue.

‘Is Buddha needed for Buddhism?’ he said, according to The Washington Post. ‘Was it not stronger after he passed away?’

By Emily Goodin, senior White House correspondent

Charles Kushner, the father of Jared Kushner and father-in-law to Ivanka Trump, sat before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for his confirmation as ambassador to France.

He was asked about his past transgression, where, in 2004, he plead guilty to 16 counts of tax evasion, one count of retaliating against a federal witness, and another count of lying to the Federal Election Commission.

‘My misjudgement and mistake was over 20 years ago. Since then, I’ve been pardoned by President Trump. But I don’t sit here before you today and tell you I’m a perfect person. I am not a perfect person. I made a very, very, very serious mistake, and I paid a very heavy price for that,’ Kushner told senators.

The tawdry crime had to do with a revenge plot against his brother-in-law William Schulder, a former employee turned witness for federal prosecutors.

Charles Kushner hired a prostitute to lure Schulder into having sex in a Bridgewater, New Jersey, motel room as a hidden camera taped the encounter. That tape was then sent to Schulder’s wife, who was Charles’ sister Esther.

Kushner addressed the issue when Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen asked how his past would affect his post as ambassador.

‘Since then, I look at life as a as a balance sheet, and many of us have assets, many of us have liabilities, and I’ve have liabilities for sure, and the mistake I made in the past is one of my many liabilities. But I also like to think of my life in context that I’ve had a lot of assets. My wife and I have given away over $100 million of our own money to charities,’ he noted.

He added that ‘I think that my past mistakes actually make me better with my judgment, better in my view of life, better my values, to really make me more qualified to do this job – maybe if I hadn’t been on top of a mountain and felt off that mountain at some point in my life. So thank you for raising it.’

‘It’s an issue that I’m sure is on a lot of people’s mind that they don’t have the courage to raise it. So thank you, and it’s an example also from my grandchildren, who are sitting here today, who that if I make mistakes, you have to admit your mistakes, and you have to go on with your life and make it productive and worthwhile.’

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Donald Trump says worsening economic figures released on Wednesday have ‘nothing to do with tariffs.’

The President blamed predecessor Joe Biden after it emerged the U.S. GDP shrank by 0.3 per cent in the first quarter of the year.

The grim figures – coming as Trump marks his first 100 days in office – sent Wall Street stock markets into a fresh sell-off this week.

‘This is Biden’s stock market, not Trump’s,’ he posted on his Truth Social account. ‘Tariffs will soon start kicking in, and companies are starting to move into the USA in record numbers.’

He predicted: ‘Our country will boom, but we have to get rid of the Biden ‘overhang’.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Donald Trump’s cabinet meeting on Wednesday earned him a new mob-style nickname from MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell.

The liberal TV anchor’s new moniker for the president: ‘Donny Two Dolls.’

At the meeting on his 100th day back in the Oval Office, Trump admited that Christmas might look a little more bleak this year due to his economic and trade policies.

‘Maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls, and maybe the two dolls will cost a couple of bucks more than they would normally,’ Trump said in the gathering of his top officials.

President Trump is reportedly preparing to fire White House National Security advisor Michael Waltz, according to a report from journalist Mark Halperin.

Donald Trump told a town hall audience what exactly happened between himself and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky in their face-to-face meeting at the Vatican.

The president gave the details behind the iconic photo of the two world leaders during a NewsNation town hall Wednesday night moderated by Chris Cuomo, Stephen A. Smith and Bill O’Reilly.

Former Vice President Kamala Harris returned to the public political arena on Wednesday, delivering a critical speech berating President Donald Trump but also urging Democrats to find inspiration from elephants at the San Diego Zoo.

The failed presidential candidate took the stage at Emerge 20th anniversary gala at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco to deliver the keynote speech that began late in the evening.

‘It’s good to be home!’ Harris laughed as she took the stage.