President-elect Donald Trump terminated one of his transition team’s staff members, Michael G. Flynn. He is son of Trump's pick for the national security adviser. The decision was taken after Flynn use Twitter to spread a fake news story about Trump's Democratic rival Hillary Clinton which led to an armed confrontation in a pizza restaurant in Washington.

He and his father, Lt-Gen Michael T. Flynn have shared fake news stories alleging that Clinton committed felonies, and have posted their own Twitter messages that at times have crossed into Islamophobia.

Michael V. Hayden, a former director of both the CIA and the National Security Agency, said that, “The national security adviser should have a moderating effect on the instincts of the president, and it remains to be seen if Mike can do that.”

“He has regularly engaged in the reckless public promotion of conspiracy theories that have no basis in fact, with disregard for the risks that giving credence to those theories could pose to the public,” Representative Adam Smith of Washington said.

“Someone who is so oblivious to the facts, or intentionally ignorant of them, should not be entrusted with policy decisions that affect the safety of the American people,” Smith added.

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