Gorka Says London Attack, Carried Out By UK Citizen, Justifies Travel Ban

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White House aide Sebastian Gorka on Wednesday cited a terror attack outside Britain’s Parliament as justification for President Donald Trump’s blocked travel ban, although the culprit was a U.K. citizen who would not have been affected by the President’s desired travel restrictions.

“The war is real and that’s why executive orders like president Trump’s travel moratorium are so important,” Gorka, a deputy assistant to the President whose counterterrorism expertise has been heavily criticized, told Fox News’ Sean Hannity.

The U.K. has confirmed that the man who killed three and injured 10 in Westminster was a British-born man named Khalid Masood, 52.

Trump’s travel ban on immigrants from six majority-Muslim countries would not have prevented Masood from traveling to the United States. The ban, laid out in a fresh executive order by the President after its previous iteration stalled in the courts, was blocked by multiple federal judges this month on grounds of religious discrimination.

Watch a clip of Gorka’s Hannity appearance below:

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  1. Hey, Gorky…

  2. Avatar for paulw paulw says:

    Gorka used to live in England, didn’t he? I begin to see a connection…

  3. Dueling jack asses!

  4. Trump: My Muslim Ban would deport muslim citizens back to their homeland. No Muslims == No terrorist attacks and a very strong White and Christian economy.

  5. So when is President Trump going to lecture/gloat over Theresa May, is the tweet lined up and ready go?

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