{"id":180393,"date":"2017-05-01T19:02:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T00:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/05\/01\/gorka-out\/"},"modified":"2017-05-01T19:02:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T00:02:00","slug":"gorka-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/05\/01\/gorka-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Gorka Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sebastian Gorka, who was brought into the Trump Administration as a terrorism expert, is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2017\/may\/01\/sebastian-gorka-to-leave-white-house-amid-accusations-of-links-to-far-right\">leaving the administration<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that this was not because <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2017\/05\/linkage.html\">his PhD was basically fraudulent<\/a>, no because he was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carbonated.tv\/news\/gorkas-excuses-for-his-ties-to-naziallied-group-dont-add-up\">a member of a Hungarian Neo-Nazi Group<\/a>, but because the so-called terrorism expert could not get a security clearance:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Sebastian Gorka, an adviser to Donald Trump who has been under pressure over his links to Hungarian far-right groups, is leaving the White House.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">A senior official said Gorka, a former counterterrorism analyst for Fox News who joined the administration as an adviser, will be leaving the White House in the coming days.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\">Trump aide drew plan on napkin to partition Libya into three<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\">Read more<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">The official said that Gorka had initially been hired to sit on the strategic initiatives group, an advisory panel created by Trump\u2019s chief strategist Steve Bannon to run parallel to the national security council. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">But that group fizzled out in the early months of the administration. <b><span style=\"font-size: 120%; font-variant: small-caps;\">Gorka was unable to get clearance for the national security council<\/span><\/b> after he was charged last year with carrying a weapon at Ronald Reagan Washington national airport. <\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>In recent weeks, one White House source <a data-link-name=\"in body link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/sebastian-gorka-to-accept-role-outside-white-house\/article\/2621719\">told the Washington Examiner <\/a>that  Gorka\u2019s role had diminished to the point where he was appearing on  television, \u201cgiving White House tours and peeling out in his Mustang.\u201d <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How the hell do you get a position in the White House, particularly working national security, when you cannot get a security clearance, particularly when 15 years earlier, he also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/mitchprothero\/how-a-trump-adviser-failed-upwards-from-hungary-to-the\">could not get a security clearance in Hungary<\/a>.&nbsp; (It appears that his CV is a bit dodgy.)<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, this is a guy who should be asking, &#8220;Do you want fries with that?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sebastian Gorka, who was brought into the Trump Administration as a terrorism expert, is leaving the administration. It appears that this was not because his PhD was basically fraudulent, no because he was a member of a Hungarian Neo-Nazi Group, but because the so-called terrorism expert could not get a security clearance: Sebastian Gorka, an &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[546,364,406,403,454],"class_list":["post-180393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antisemitism","tag-evil","tag-stupid","tag-wanker","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180393"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}