18 hours Ago By Jacob Burg
President Donald Trump confirmed on April 3 that some staffers at the National Security Council were recently laid off. While speaking with reporters outside Air Force One on April 3, Trump was asked why members of the council were fired. “[We] always will let go people that we don’t like, or people that we don’t think do the job, or people that may have loyalties to somebody else,” Trump said.
“You'll always have that.” The president also denied media reports alleging that right-wing activist Laura Loomer had influenced the decision. Anonymous media reports had alleged that Loomer recommended the firings to Trump in a meeting the previous day.
“Out of respect for President @realDonaldTrump 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 wrote. “I will continue reiterating the importance of, and the necessity of STRONG VETTING, for the sake of protecting the President of the United States of America, and our national security. ” On April 3, Trump told reporters he had met with Loomer, who “makes recommendations of things and people, and sometimes I listen to those recommendations,” calling her a “very good patriot.
” “She recommended certain people for jobs,” Trump said. A reporter asked Trump if she also advised him to remove people from his administration. “Well, she'll recommend that too,” Trump replied, reiterating that Loomer had made hiring suggestions.
Trump denied that Loomer made recommendations to fire any National Security Council staffers, and also declined to say who she proposed he hire. “She’s recommended some good people over the years. She’s been in the party a long time.
She’s done a good job,” Trump said. The president said he trusts his national security staff. “We’ve done very well.
We’ve had big success with the Houthis.” On Thursday, the National Security Council (NSC) declined to comment on the matter. “NSC doesn’t comment on personal matters,” NSC spokesman Brian Hughes said in a statement to The Epoch Times.
The firings come one week after national security adviser Michael Waltz inadvertently added a journalist to a Signal chat group with top Trump administration officials discussing attack plans for the Houthis in Yemen, a designated terrorist organization. “This case has been closed here at the White House,” Leavitt told reporters, without disclosing findings..
