Trump Pick for Deputy National Security Adviser Outed Brother Dying of AIDS and Refused to Visit Him

“If I Had One Word to Describe My Sister, It Would Be ‘Evil,'” Says McFarland’s Brother

Fox News contributor K.T. McFarland has been chosen to become Donald Trump’s Deputy National Security Adviser despite a history of embellishing her résumé and, according to her family, lying about an abusive childhood to the press, the Washington Blade’s Chris Johnson reports.

McFarland reportedly “couldn’t abide” her brother’s homosexuality, according to a 2007 New York Magazine profile.

“KT had a brother here in New York City who had followed her to George Washington University and then worked as an analyst. ‘Ummmm. He was sick and then he died,’ is all she would say when pressed. Michael Troia had aids; his obituary listed three ‘companions,'” the New York Magazine piece stated.

K.T., short for Kathleen Troia, her maiden name, “couldn’t abide his sexual orientation,” the New York Magazine article continued.

“Shortly after she discovered Mike had aids, she wrote her parents lengthy, angry, almost Gothic letters in which she outed her brother, blamed her father for his troubles as well as those of her and her other siblings, and cut off contact with her parents.”

“Have you ever wondered why I have never had anything to do with Mike and have never let my daughters see him although we live only fifteen minutes away from each other?” she wrote. “He has been a lifelong homosexual, most of his relationships brief, fleeting one-night stands.”

The profile also says that K.T.’s mother denied allegations of an abusive father, as did another brother, Tom, to the New York Post in 2006. He also called his sister “evil.” Twice.

Tom Troia, of Janesville, Wis., accused his sister of conjuring up the allegations in a spiteful letter she gave to her parents in 1992 in hopes of killing her father with a heart attack while also rubbing in another brother’s face that he was dying of AIDS. 

“It’s a complete fabrication,” Troia, 52, told The Post of his sister’s charges. “If I had one word to describe my sister, it would be ‘evil.’ ” 

Asked why his sister, who is in the middle of a Republican primary battle with former Yonkers Mayor John Spencer to take on Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, would make up horrendous charges about their father, Troia said, “Evil needs no reason.”

Johnson dug up more disturbing behavior on McFarland, including “exaggerating her contribution to President Reagan’s ‘Star Wars’ speech and her claims of being the highest-ranking woman in Reagan’s Pentagon. The latter was demonstrably not true because there were two other women with ranks higher than hers.”

And then, Johnson reports on this stunning revelation: 

In a subsequent interview with the New York Times, McFarland reportedly said she grew up in a home where from the age of 2 onward she was beaten and whipped with belts along with her brother. At times, McFarland reportedly said, her father would wave a gun in her face, threatening to kill the family.

Her brother Tom told the Post there was never a gun in the house.

Pointing to a Media Matters report, Johnson adds that as a Fox News commentator McFarland “made dubious claims, such as saying the Benghazi CIA compound under attack in 2012 didn’t receive additional security because Chris Stevens couldn’t contact Clinton via a State Department email address.” 

Requests for security do “not rise to the level of the secretary of state” and it’s not unusual for ambassadors to not have the email address of a secretary of state, according to the Council for Foreign Relations.

One more Trump pick who is wholly unsuitable for the job.

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow reported on McFarland’s appointment Monday evening: