Trump national security aide K.T. McFarland may become envoy to Singapore

President Donald Trump’s deputy national security adviser, K.T. McFarland, is expected to step down and has been offered the position of US ambassador to Singapore, a US official said on Sunday.

The move comes as Trump’s national security adviser, H.R. McMaster, retools the national security team he inherited from retired General Michael Flynn, who resigned as Trump’s first national security adviser in February.

News of her pending departure came less than a week after Trump removed his chief strategist, Steve Bannon, from a seat on the National Security Council at the urging of McMaster.

Flynn was forced to resign on February 13 over his contacts with Russia’s ambassador to the United States, Sergei Kislyak, prior to Trump taking office on January 20.