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The White House has dismissed at least three staff of the National Security Council, three sources familiar with the move to CNN.
The layoffs intervened after Laura Loodor, the far -right activist who said one day on September 11 was an internal job, urged President Donald Trump at a meeting on Wednesday to get rid of several members of his staff from the National Security Council, including his main assistant national security adviser, saying that they are unfair. One of the sources said that layoffs were the direct result of the meeting with a loss.
The deputy vice-adviser of national security, Alex Wong, was not one of those who had been dismissed on Wednesday, however, a White House official speculated at CNN on Thursday that Wong could be absent today, although a final decision remains to be seen.
Wong was one of the advisers specifically targeted by Loomer, who publicly challenged his loyalty to Trump and criticized him in private as a “never at the time”.
One of the sources hypothesized that the National Security Advisor Michael Waltz was perhaps reluctant to dismiss Wong because he was involved in the controversy surrounding the flight of controversial signal messages linked to the military strikes on Yemen that Waltz and his team were under fire for initiation.
The three licensed officials are Brian Walsh, director of intelligence and a former senior official for Secretary of State Marco Rubio of the Senate Intelligence Committee; Thomas Boodry, Senior Director of Legislative Affairs who has previously been legislative director of Waltz at the Congress; And David Feith, a principal director supervising the technology and national security that served in the State Department during the first administration of Trump.
“The NSC does not comment on staff ‘questions,” said NSC spokesperson Brian Hughes, in a statement at CNN.
Waltz was in the oval office for other meetings when Loomer arrived on Wednesday for an audience with Trump and remained as president met a loomer. One of the people she specifically targeted was Wong. Loomer publicly questioned his loyalty to Trump and criticized him in private as a “never with a rush”.
“Out of respect for President Trump and the private life of the Oval Office, I will refuse to disclose details on my meeting of the Oval Office with President Trump,” Looper told CNN on Thursday. “It was an honor to meet President Trump and present my conclusions to him, I will continue to work hard to support his program, and I will continue to repeat the importance of a strong verification, to protect the president and our national security.”
The meeting of the Oval Office with Loomer, who was reported for the first time by the New York Times, took place while the president and his economic team were preparing the pricing announcement in Rose Garden.
Susie Wiles, the Chief of the White House Staff who was one of the advisers who worked to control Trump’s access to Trump during the campaign, was present for the meeting, an assistant said.
We did not know when the Loomer meeting had been placed on the calendar, but the assistant said that the presence of Wiles and Sergio Gor, head of presidential staff, stressed that it was a sanctioned meeting.
Gor, who is considered one of the president’s most faithful aid, was among the advisers who brought Maga World complaints about Waltz.
This story has been updated with additional details.
Jeff Zelery de CNN has contributed to this report.
