Richard Higgins (September 18, 1974 – February 23, 2022) was an American counter-terrorism analyst who served as the Director for Strategic Planning of the National Security Council in the Trump administration in 2017.
McMaster after warning in a memo of a deep state plot to remove the president.
[4] Some months after being appointed to serve in the National Security Council by National Security Advisor Michael Flynn in early 2017, Higgins wrote a seven-page memo titled "POTUS and Political Warfare"[7] which claimed that a cabal of deep state actors were conspiring against Trump, which included the mainstream media, academia, global corporatists and bankers, the Democratic Party leadership, the Republican Party leadership, and Islamists.
[8][9] Trump was reportedly "furious" after learning of Higgins' forced departure by Flynn's replacement, H.R.
[8] In 2018, Higgins and retired CIA officer Brad Johnson, backed by about a dozen intelligence and special operations community members, published a conspiracy theory that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and antifa were involved in the 2017 Las Vegas shooting.