The Trump administration chose to remain ambiguous regarding counterterrorism adviser Sebastian Gorka’s future on Monday, hoping to strike a balance between a wish to end the controversy surrounding him and a desire to display loyalty to someone who has been close to chief strategist Stephen Bannon for years. “I have no belief that he is…
Sebastian Gorka’s days in the White House may not be over after all — at least if you believe Sean Spicer. Over the weekend, unnamed senior administration officials told major news outlets that Gorka is on his way out, and ia waiting for another administration position outside the White House. But on Monday, White House…
News that controversial White House counterterrorism aide Sebastian Gorka may soon be reassigned outside the executive office of the White House was greeted by an anti-Trump Jewish group with muted optimism. Gorka’s ties to Nazi-affiliated Hungarian groups (first reported in the Forward) as well as his “virulent anti-Muslim views and his lack of national security…
White nationalist Richard Spencer called Sebastian Gorka’s apparent departure from the White House “not good news,” viewing the move as part of broader tensions between globalists and nationalist in the Trump administration. “Gorka (however imperfect) was on Team Bannon (however imperfect). It indicates a shift towards the Kushnercons,” Spencer wrote on Twitter. “Team Bannon” is…
This is the season of conferences and commencements, which means it’s time for the inevitable verbal boxing match over who is an acceptable speaker and who is not. Up next is whether Linda Sarsour, a Palestinian-American activist and one of the organizers of the Women’s March On Washington, should — or should not — speak…
Sebastian Gorka, President Trump’s controversial counter-terrorism advisor, is soon to be shifted from his White House position to another spot somewhere else in the administration, according to a report) in the Washington Examiner. Gorka, whose official title is deputy assistant to the president, has been under continued attack from critics for his alleged lack of…
When Sebastian Gorka, President Trump’s top counterterrorism adviser, met the British journalist Ruth Sherlock at the White House in late March, the deputy assistant to the president took her deep into the West Wing, proudly waving his blue “all-access” pass. Then, in the Roosevelt Room, at the heart of the White House power center, opposite…
“Dr. Gorka”? Not so fast. Sebastian Gorka has already come under fire for his ties to a far right-wing Hungarian group that was allied to the Nazis. Now tough questions are being asked about the controversial White House anti-terrorism official’s academic credentials. “Gorka is… a snake-oil salesman whose supposed Ph.D dissertation would have never passed…
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