President Donald Trump has fired a number of senior officials of his National Security Council after a far-right activist claimed they were disloyal to his “Make America Great Again” agenda.
The firings reportedly occurred after a meeting on Wednesday in the White House between Trump and the rightwing social media personality and conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer, who presented him with research into certain members of the NSC and urged him to sack them.
The Oval Office encounter was first reported by The New York Times, which said Loomer attacked the officials in front of their boss, the national security adviser Mike Waltz, who was present at the meeting alongside vice-president JD Vance and other senior officials.