WSJ Claims Mike Waltz To Be National Security Adviser
That “WSJ Claims” is my CYA, after getting burned on the Trump - Putin phone call story. Who is Mike Waltz? He sounds like a wack job to me—oh, and thank you for your service!
Michael George Glen Waltz (born January 31, 1974)[4] is an American politician and a colonel in the United States Army serving as the U.S. representative for Florida's 6th congressional district. A member of the Republican Party, he was first elected in 2018 and succeeded Ron DeSantis, who went on to be elected the 46th governor of Florida in 2018.
After commissioning as an Army lieutenant, he graduated Ranger School and was selected to be a Green Beret, serving worldwide as a Special Forces officer with multiple tours in Afghanistan, the Middle East and Africa. For his actions in combat, Waltz was decorated with four Bronze Stars, including two for valor.
Waltz worked in the Pentagon as a defense policy director for secretaries of defense Donald Rumsfeld and Robert Gates. He went on to serve in the White House as the vice president's counterterrorism advisor.
Waltz is considered one of Congress's most hawkish members with regard to China, saying, "We are in a Cold War with the Chinese Communist Party."[14] In 2021, he was the first member of Congress to call for a full U.S. boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing over what he described as the CCP’s genocide and internment of Chinese Uyghur populations and the enslavement, forced labor, and internment camps of ethnic minorities in China.
In 2020, Waltz voted for the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) of 2021, which would prevent the president from withdrawing soldiers from Afghanistan without congressional approval.
Waltz voted to include provisions for drafting women in the NDAA of 2022.
Waltz voted for the Consolidated Appropriations Act (H.R. 1158),[44] which effectively prohibits Immigration and Customs Enforcement from cooperating with the Department of Health and Human Services to detain or remove illegal alien sponsors of Unaccompanied Alien Children.
On July 19, 2022, Waltz and 46 other Republican representatives voted for the Respect for Marriage Act, which would codify the right to same-sex marriage in federal law.
We shall see.
All hands on deck? Sounds like Zelensky.
"In 2021, Waltz backed an amendment that would have required women to register for the draft. “We need men, women, gay, straight, any religion, Black, white, brown. We need everybody, all hands on deck,” Waltz stated at the time.
Checking the interwebs tonight what's very clear is that there is intense public lobbying going on for various candidates, but focusing on national security/deep state positions.