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L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
Sun Aug 13, 2017, 10:11 AM Aug 2017

Fire the White House Nazis.

Including Trump!





Sebastian Gorka, the West Wing's Phony Foreign-Policy Guru
Gorka's a former Breitbart editor with Islamophobic views and ties to neo-Nazi extremists – and he has the ear of the president

The Breitbart News headline, back in November 2014, rang like a five-alarm fire bell: MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD OVERRUNS NATIONAL CATHEDRAL IN DC. Its author, Breitbart's national-security editor, was Dr. Sebastian L. v. Gorka, who currently occupies a top White House post as "deputy assistant" to President Donald Trump. And like just about anything Gorka has said or written, the Breitbart headline was wrong in every way. It wasn't the Muslim Brotherhood at all, and no one overran anything. Despite his characteristic hyperventilation, the event in question was a dignified, interfaith prayer service organized jointly by the leaders of Washington National Cathedral and five mainstream Muslim organizations seeking to unite "voices of moderation." .......................






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Fire the White House Nazis. (Original Post) L. Coyote Aug 2017 OP
I'd like to know Clarity2 Aug 2017 #1

Clarity2

(1,009 posts)
1. I'd like to know
Sun Aug 13, 2017, 10:46 AM
Aug 2017

for one, why Gorka is still in the White House. It was widely reported he was being put to pasture elsewhere back in Mar/Apr!

But then I found this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2017/08/10/why-is-sebastian-gorka-still-in-the-white-house-because-trump-loves-his-tv-performances/?utm_term=.a4d5de0fca07

"To be sure, some in the White House have apparently tried to get Gorka transferred — to no avail. As veteran national security reporter Bob Dreyfuss reports today in Rolling Stone, the White House “tried to find him a job at another agency,” but “nobody wanted him,” as a source put it."

and:

"But he has a single piece of expertise that has turned him into a favorite Trump surrogate: a willingness to defend Trump against any perceived enemy, and to project Trump’s us-vs.-them mentality to the world — regardless of what more senior administration officials or anyone with actual expertise thinks."

Bannon probably has numerous things to hold over Trump, and if he's let go he'd be a loose cannon.

It's revolting to me that these people are running our country...OUR country. It feels like the U.S. is a plane that's been hijacked by terrorists.

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