Trump Taps Sebastian Gorka for White House Counterterrorism Post

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Source: MEDIAite

Nov 22nd, 2024, 9:51 pm


Former Trump administration adviser Sebastian Gorka will return to the White House next year, President-elect Donald Trump announced on Friday night.

Trump took to his Truth Social account to announce his intention to nominate a number of cabinet appointments, filling chairs for the Departments of Labor, Transportation, and the Treasury.

In a news release, Trump announced Gorka would serve as a counterterrorism adviser.

“Dr. Sebastian Gorka will be returning to the White House as Deputy Assistant to the President, and Senior Director for Counterterrorism,” Trump wrote.

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-taps-sebastian-gorka-for-white-house-counterterrorism-post/

[Tadpole Raisin]

1. Well republicans you can choke on it because it's all yours

now. You own this cluster f**k!

[travelingthrulife]

2. All the crooks are back!

We will never again be trusted as a country.

[underpants]

6. 3rd string JV

He got fired by Kelly after 7 months in 2017. See post below.

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18. Gorka and his phony doctorate! "two of the three referees had only Bachelor of Arts degrees"

_ Gorka's Ph.D. thesis, describing it as "inept" and saying "It does not deploy evidence that would satisfy the most basic methodological requirements for a PhD in the US"

_ the evaluation of each referee on Gorka's PhD committee was "a page of generalized comments – completely at odds with the detailed substantive and methodological evaluations ...

_one of the referees had published with Gorka previously, in violation of the academic expectation that reviewers have no personal or other form of interest in the success of a candidate's thesis

_Georgetown University associate professor Daniel Nexon reviewed Gorka's Ph.D. thesis, describing it as "inept" and saying "It does not deploy evidence that would satisfy the most basic methodological requirements for a PhD in the US"

_Nexon ran Gorka's thesis text through plagiarism software, finding that portions of it were "repurposed", and concluded that he "might as well have mail-ordered his Ph.D." Wikipedia

"Dr. Gorka" ???

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3. 'Sebastian Gorka was White House aide while a fugitive from Hungarian justice'

"The White House employed a Hungarian fugitive for seven months, according to an arrest warrant that appears to show that Sebastian Gorka, a former adviser to Donald Trump, was wanted there on weapons charges as of September 2016."

"The warrant, first reported by Hungarian online outlet 444 and BuzzFeed News is for 'firearm or ammunition abuse.'..Gorka, a former Breitbart writer and Trump campaign surrogate, served as 'deputy assistant' to the president during his White House tenure, but the exact nature of his role was vague. Gorka was reportedly forced out last August, by the chief of staff, John Kelly, who had recently assumed the role."

"Gorka has a longstanding and well-documented interest in guns. He told Recoil magazine in November that his 'everyday carry' includes two pistols, a knife, a tourniquet – and for good measure – a copy of the US constitution. In February 2016, he had a pistol confiscated after attempting to bring it through Washington’s Reagan national airport."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/18/sebastian-gorka-hungary-fugitive-white-house-aide

[underpants]

8. This guy is a joke. Typical Trump sycophant.

In 1998, Gorka served as an adviser to Viktor Orbán.[26]

Democratic Senators Ben Cardin, Dick Durbin, and Richard Blumenthal sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), requesting that DHS look into whether Gorka "illegally procured his citizenship" by omitting membership in Historical Vitézi Rend, which could have been grounds for keeping him out of the country.[123]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian_Gorka

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4. 🙄 Gorka is both a Nazi and Kash Patel with an echo chamber PhD

According to Reynolds, at least two of the three referees had only Bachelor of Arts degrees, and one of the referees had published with Gorka previously, in violation of the academic expectation that reviewers have no personal or other form of interest in the success of a candidate's thesis.[91] Georgetown University associate professor Daniel Nexon reviewed Gorka's Ph.D. thesis, describing it as "inept" and saying "It does not deploy evidence that would satisfy the most basic methodological requirements for a PhD in the US".[86] Nexon ran Gorka's thesis text through plagiarism software, finding that portions of it were "repurposed", and concluded that he "might as well have mail-ordered his Ph.D.".[92]

In 2017, Gorka appeared on Fox News on the evening of the U.S. presidential inauguration wearing a badge, tunic, and ring of the Order of Vitéz.[103][104] This gave rise to claims that Gorka himself is a Nazi sympathizer.[105][106] New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman wrote in April 2017 that Gorka "has been accused of having links to far-right groups in Europe",[68] and The Guardian reported that the Order of Vitez, whose medal Gorka wore to Donald Trump's inaugural ball, "has been linked by some to Nazi colluders".[10

Statements of support for Gorka, which have challenged the description of him as an anti-semite, all predated a 2017 story that connected him with another extreme far-right anti-Semitic group. In a 2007 video, Gorka declared his support for the Magyar Gárda (Hungarian Guard), a paramilitary group described by various sources as neo-fascist and anti-Semitic.[124


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian_Gorka

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5. Just when you think the

clown car can't possibly hold one more.

[BumRushDaShow]

9. ...

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7. "Grrreeetings"

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10. TYPO: "conterterrorism" should be "terrorism". nt

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11. Confederacy of Dunces

I mean, this guy?!

[HuskyOffset]

12. We've never needed Michael Brooks more than after this announcement

Now I made myself sad again. Rest in power Michael, you are remembered and missed.

[JoseBalow]

13. Another bloviating self-important douchebag

I'd like to poke him in the eye.

[Marthe48]

14. fox guarding the henhouse

pronounced f*cks

[Quanto Magnus]

15. I was half expecting to see

".... we've found Osama bin Laden's body and resurrected him, so he can be Senior Director of counterterrorism..."

[SunSeeker]

16. He is a right wing Islamophobe and all around loon.

There you go, "Uncommitted" and pro-Trump Michigan Muslim voters! How's that for a "thank you" from Trump?

[LudwigPastorius]

17. Gorka will probably be in charge of whipping the 3 Percenters, Oath Keepers, and Proud Boys into...

an organized and effective Sturmabteilung.