Mike Waltz had probably annoyed Trump before “Signalgate”

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Fired Waltz had probably annoyed Trump before “Signalgate”

Mike Waltz had apparently already pulled Trump’s resentment before the chat. Meanwhile, the US President believes in an economic miracle. All developments in the news blog.

With his tariffs, Donald Trump wanted to explain the domestic economy. But experts fear that the president instead leads his country into a stagflation. That would also have consequences for Germany. Read more about it here.

The US foreigner Voice of America (VOA) can apparently start operating again from next week. A lawyer of the Ministry of Justice stated in an email that the USAGM, which is responsible for abroad, expects the VOA employees to gradually continue their work from the coming week, wrote the broadcaster of the broadcaster, Steve Herman, in the online service X.

The organization reporter without borders also stated that their lawyers had been informed by the Ministry of Justice that the broadcaster’s employees were allowed to return to work. Usagm has unlocked the e-mail accounts of 1406 employees of the authority and VOA. Usagm assumes that the employees could return to their jobs from the coming week, it said. A resumption of the VOA programs will also be expected for next week.

The outgoing national security advisor Michael Waltz had apparently attracted trump’s displeasure before the “Singalgate” affair. According to the “Washington Post”, Waltz had coordinated with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about a possible attack on Iran-without the prior consent of US President Donald Trump.

According to this, Waltz is said to have had intensive discussions with the Israeli side in early February before a meeting with Trump in the Oval Office in early February. According to the sources, the aim was to prepare military options against Tehran. Trump had seen this self-powerful coordination as an attempt to steer US politics in a direction that he himself rejected. A diplomatic solution was not yet off the table for him. An insider is cited with the words that Waltz “wanted to bring US politics in a direction with which Trump did not feel comfortable”.

The affair had already started weeks before the so -called “signal gate”, which later became public and as part of which Waltz had accidentally added a journalist to a chat group in which war plans were discussed. In internal circles, Waltz was accused of cooperating too closely with a foreign head of state and thus undermining the president’s authority.

Despite the currently low economic growth, President Donald Trump has confirmed that he was convinced of an economic upswing in the United States as a result of his politics. “I think we will experience the best economic situation in the history of our country. I think we will experience the biggest economic boom in history,” said Trump on Friday in an interview with the broadcaster NBC, which will be broadcast in full on Sunday.

According to Trump, the unexpectedly shrunk US economic performance is due to a “transition period”. “I think it will be fantastic,” he said at NBC. When asked whether the United States could slip into a recession, the president said: “Everything can happen.”

In the first three months of the year, the US economy has shrunk surprisingly. Consumers also look much more pessimistic into the future. US Central Bank Director Jerome Powell referred to the risks of growth and inflation, which are based on Trump’s customs policy.

In the United States, the tariffs announced by President Trump came into force on certain auto parts on Saturday. A surcharge of 25 percent applies. There are relief for manufacturers who ending their vehicles in the USA. You can have part of the tariffs reimbursed.