Trump Taps Sebastian Gorka for White House Counterterrorism Post
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
(1,561 posts)now. You own this cluster f**k!
travelingthrulife
(961 posts)We will never again be trusted as a country.
underpants
(187,391 posts)He got fired by Kelly after 7 months in 2017. See post below.
mpcamb
(2,979 posts)_ 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" ???
sop
(11,605 posts)"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 Washingtons Reagan national airport."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/18/sebastian-gorka-hungary-fugitive-white-house-aide
underpants
(187,391 posts)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
underpants
(187,391 posts)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
moniss
(6,155 posts)clown car can't possibly hold one more.
Fullduplexxx
(8,364 posts)eppur_se_muova
(37,670 posts)roscoeroscoe
(1,643 posts)I mean, this guy?!
HuskyOffset
(912 posts)Now I made myself sad again. Rest in power Michael, you are remembered and missed.
JoseBalow
(5,656 posts)I'd like to poke him in the eye.
Marthe48
(19,350 posts)pronounced f*cks
Quanto Magnus
(1,035 posts)".... we've found Osama bin Laden's body and resurrected him, so he can be Senior Director of counterterrorism..."
SunSeeker
(54,067 posts)There you go, "Uncommitted" and pro-Trump Michigan Muslim voters! How's that for a "thank you" from Trump?
LudwigPastorius
(11,092 posts)an organized and effective Sturmabteilung.