Vice President JD Vance rejected claims that national security adviser Mike Waltz was ousted from his post due to a March controversy involving leaked national security information.
“He wasn’t let go,” Vance told Fox News’s Brett Baier in an interview that aired on May 1. “He is being made ambassador to the United Nations, which, of course, is a Senate-confirmed position. I think you can make a good argument that it’s a promotion.”
Specifically, on May 1, President Donald Trump announced that he was nominating Waltz to the U.N. and that he would be stepping down from his national security post….