Tammy Bruce, the State Department spokesperson, was flummoxed. ‘I just heard this from you,’ she responded after a reporter told her at a briefing session that President Trump has appointed Marco Rubio to replace Mike Waltz as his acting National Security Advisor.
But this isn’t his final Waltz. Waltz is now headed to the United Nations, where he will fill the ambassador slot which Representative Elise Stefanik coveted but was forced to surrender to ensure the Republicans maintain their slender majority in the House.
Little Marco may play a bigger role in the Trump administration than anyone had anticipated
News reports earlier, first from Mark Halperin, had posited that Waltz was destined for the dustbin. The conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer claimed credit for the Waltz ouster that wasn’t, telling Politico that he had been ‘Loomered’. A lot of loomering does seem to be taking place in the Trump administration. Loomer seemingly played a key role in ensuring that a number of his aides were recently defenestrated, including David Feith and Thomas Broody.
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