Gorka Was Critical Of Trump Throughout Presidential Campaign

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Sebastian Gorka, an adviser to President Donald Trump on counterterrorism – and, previously, an editor for Breitbart – criticized Trump during the presidential campaign.

In interviews surfaced by CNN, Gorka called Trump “a black hole” and “full of bluster.”

“On the right the Republican side, we have the New York real estate mogul who’s very full of bluster, full of sturm und drang, makes lots of statements about how we’re going to win and how the U.S. army is going to be undefeatable, but there’s no depth,” Gorka told “The Georgene Rice Show” in April 2016. “There’s no plan. There’s no strategy. So I can’t judge him because he’s really a black hole, so the last one that’s really serious is Senator Cruz.”

In other interviews, Gorka voiced an opposition to Trump’s friendliness toward Russia.

“If you have a broad historical sense you will understand that even if Putin says he’s killing terrorists or even if China says they’re fighting the Uyghur nationalists that doesn’t mean they’re on our side,” Gorka told Fox News’ Jeanine Pirro last May. “Putin is a former KGB colonel, he’s a thug, he’s a vicious man. He runs a country in which journalists get murdered if they disagree with the Kremlin. China is the world’s last communist dictatorship. It may be running around doing quasi-capitalist things but it is a one party state and to say that we have shared interests, no, Mr. Trump, we don’t and we should really stick to the friends we already have.”

Read CNN’s full report here.

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  1. So says Drum Majorette Gorka…

  2. The deal was closed when he was allowed to wear it. It’s his binky.

  3. Avatar for theod theod says:

    1 / Further proof that Gorka is mostly an ally of sous-Pres. Bannon and merely a temp-employee of Trump, hired to be a mouthpiece that covers Trump’s butt and be a visible bulldog on international matters while Bannon does his demolition job behind the scenes (such as defunding the Dept. of State).

    2 / In the search for relevance, status, and a job with some power and visibility, people in DC would slit their mother’s throat, and so changing one’s tune (such as from Cruzian pathologies to Trump’s many) is pretty common and simple. KA Conway did it; her critiques of Trump are many and deep. So were these people lying then or now? Probably both. Even Bannon called Trump a “blunt tool.”

    3 / Deplorable, just as HRC promised.

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