Mike Waltz: The Signal Chat Scandal That Targeted Hegseth

Showing 5 Mike Waltz videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.

Mike Waltz, then serving as National Security Advisor, created the Signal group chat at the center of a controversy that erupted after a journalist was inadvertently included in a discussion of military strike planning, an episode Charlie Kirk argues was subsequently redirected to target Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth instead of Waltz or his deputy Alex Wong, who Kirk says actually built the chat group. Kirk frames the resulting political pressure campaign as evidence of a deeper divide between America First foreign policy realists, whom he considers Hegseth's camp, and interventionist neoconservatives seeking to remove Hegseth specifically over his more restrained approach to military engagement. Marine Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Scheller, court-martialed after publicly criticizing the Afghanistan withdrawal, separately describes organizing support from Navy SEALs and Green Berets for Hegseth's confirmation, arguing the military's enlisted and junior officer ranks broadly favor his outsider reform approach over career Pentagon leadership. Journalist Max Blumenthal, in unrelated commentary appearing in the same source material, discusses a pressure campaign he says came from pro-Israel donors against Kirk himself in his final months, a separate and distinct controversy from the Waltz Signal chat episode.