President Donald Trump fired multiple administration officials, including members of the National Security Council, on Thursday.
An anonymous senior defense official told Fox News that the Trump administration fired National Security Agency Director Gen. Timothy Haugh. The Washington Post reported that the Trump administration also reassigned civilian Deputy Director Wendy Noble to the office of the undersecretary of defense for intelligence.
CNN reported that multiple sources confirmed the Trump administration also fired Brian Walsh, a director for intelligence; Maggie Dougherty, a senior director for international organizations; Thomas Boodry, a senior director for legislative affairs; and David Feith, a senior director of national security and technology.
According to CNN, Laura Loomer, an investigative journalist and conservative activist, met with the president at the White House on Wednesday and shared a list of roughly a dozen officials that she claimed were not loyal to the Trump administration. The outlet noted that one of its sources indicated that the president’s National Security Council firings were a result of Trump’s meeting with Loomer.
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In a Thursday post on X, formerly Twitter, Loomer tweeted, “I woke up this morning to learn that there are still people in and around the West Wing who are LEAKING to the hostile, left-wing media about President Trump’s *confidential* and *private* meetings in the Oval Office. I want to reiterate how important it is that people who gain access to the White House or the administration respect the privacy of their conversations with President Trump and his senior staff.”
Loomer confirmed that she met with Trump and presented him with her “research findings” and vowed to continue “reiterating the importance of, and the necessity of STRONG VETTING” on behalf of the Trump administration and the national security of the country.
Asked about the administration firings while aboard Air Force One on Thursday, Trump said, “We’re always going to let go of people — people we don’t like or people that take advantage of [us] or people that may have loyalties to someone else,” according to Axios.
According to CNN, while Trump denied Loomer’s involvement in the sudden firings, the president described the activist as a “very good patriot.”
In a Thursday evening post on X, Loomer tweeted, “You know how you know the NSC officials I reported to President Trump are disloyal people who have played a role in sabotaging Donald Trump? Because the fired officials are being defended by @jrpsaki Jen Psaki & Andrew McCabe on MSNBC & CNN RIGHT NOW.”
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