Removes McFarland from national security role
7 HOURS AGO
Shawn Donnan in Washington
... Trump .. is taking another step to revamp his faction-plagued White House with KT McFarland being pushed out of her job as deputy national security adviser and sent to Singapore as an ambassador instead ...
The influence of .. McFarland, a former Fox News analyst who served on the NSC in the 1970s and at the state department during the Reagan administration, had been declining since .. Flynn was fired ...That was confirmed last month with the appointment of Ms Powell, who is close to the president’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, to the role of deputy head for strategy on the NSC ...
Her replacement remains unclear and the White House official said Gen McMaster was still deciding what responsibilities the role should cover. The official said it was not clear that Ms Powell, who is seen as a growing force within the White House, would take on the entire role of deputy national security adviser ...
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