Former national security adviser John Bolton detailed that there are some telltale signs that could anticipate a decision by President Donald Trump to fire an administration official over Signalgate, the discussing of highly sensitive information on the Signal messaging app and the inadvertent addition of a journalist who witnessed it all.
Speaking to Politico, Bolton said that feedback requests by Trump to people outside of the administration could foreshadow a drastic decision: "One thing that's typical of Trump is he starts asking people, his friends and associates outside the government, 'Hey, what do you think of this guy?'" the former official explained.
He went on to say that "if somebody gets feedback that Trump's asking the membership of Mar-a-Lago or other well-placed individuals what they think of them, that's not good."
NBC News reported on Thursday that Trump has been expressing frustration with national security adviser Mike Waltz, who added The Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg to the group chat discussing imminent attacks against Yemen's Houthi rebels.
The outlet added that Trump is not only angry at the fumble, but also that the special election called to replace him in the House of Representatives is shaping up to be more competitive than expected.
Even if candidate Randy Fine manages to take the seat, Trump is worried a narrower-than-expected result could fuel a narrative that the GOP is already struggling, even in ruby-red districts Republicans won by large margins only months ago. In fact, on Thursday Trump pulled the nomination of Elise Stefanik to be the next ambassador to the UN expressing concern about the party's slim majority in the House even if the GOP won it by double digits in the last election.
The group chat remains the most contentious issue, however, as a new poll shows that a majority of Republicans believe it to be a serious problem. Concretely, a surveyl by YouGov showed that 60% of Republicans said that was the case in their view. The figure is lower than the 72% of Independents and 89% of Democrats, but conveys the seriousness of the matter even among President Donald Trump's most staunch supporters.
Overall, 74% of respondents said that the use of the group chat to discuss the strikes was a very (53%) or somewhat (21%) serious problem, showed the poll, conducted among 5,976 U.S. adults. Over a quarter of Republicans (28%) said it was a "very serious" problem. Only 13% of respondents said the matter was not very serious or not serious at all.
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