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Someone finally got canned for Signalgate (sort of).

Donald Trump announced Thursday that he would remove Michael Waltz as National Security Advisor and appoint him as ambassador to the United Nations. CBS reported earlier that Trump did not want to explicitly fire Waltz, the person who accidentally added The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg to the group chat, but waited several weeks before he could spin the demotion as part of a reorganization strategy at the National Security Council.

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