Saturday, November 23, 2024

Bolton Rips Trump's Pick for Counter-Terrorism Chief Gorka

Trump's former national security adviser John Bolton has laid into Sebastian Gorka, the president-elect's pick for counter-terrorism chief, as a "conman" whose selection is not "going to bode well for counter-terrorism efforts when the [national security council's] senior director is somebody like that".

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"But Bolton came out swinging at Gorka on Friday.

The neocon, who served in the Reagan, George W Bush and first Trump administrations, has set out his stall against many of Trump's picks, including former Democrat and Iraq veteran Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence, and told CNN that he "wouldn't have him in any US government".

Earlier this week, Bolton told NewsNation's The Hill that up until Gorka was nominated by Trump as a deputy assistant to the president and the senior director for counter-terrorism, he would have said that Gabbard's nomination "was the worst cabinet appointment in recent American history".

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"Gorka is outspokenly pro-Israel and supportive of the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and has faced allegations of Islamophobia for supporting Trump's 2017 Muslim travel ban that barred travel to the US for 90 days for visitors from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.

Gorka also claimed that Islam is "not a religion of peace".

He's come under fire for showing up at Trump's 2017 inaugural ball wearing an honorary medal from the Hungarian nationalist organization Vitzi Rend and for a previous position serving as an adviser to the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbn.

Bolton said Gorka "needs a full FBI field background investigation" and his "education claims" need to be investigated.

"I think he is a perfect example of somebody who owes his position purely to Donald Trump," Bolton told the outlet. "He doesn't display loyalty. He displays fealty. And that's what Trump wants. ...

"He doesn't want Gorka's opinions, he wants Gorka to say yes, sir', and I'm fully confident that's exactly what will happen no matter what it is Trump says."

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Bolton is a neocon, but not an unpatriotic Dictator's Puppet like this Orban stooge.

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2024-11-23 05:30 PM

Boloton sucks. Gorka is much worse

#2 | Posted by hamburglar at 2024-11-23 09:04 PM

*Bolton

#3 | Posted by hamburglar at 2024-11-23 09:14 PM

Trouble in paradise?

WOW! Who'da thunk it?

#4 | Posted by Twinpac at 2024-11-24 05:26 AM

Gorka? That bloviating wearer of an unearned foreign and high questionable medal will be off the payroll by 2026.

#5 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2024-11-24 06:32 AM

Wait. What did the guy say about Islam? And Trump hired him?!?
-suckered Arab Americans in Michigan

#6 | Posted by catdog at 2024-11-24 05:19 PM

Well ya knooooowwww that little flipper's opinion is a big "so what and who cares?" what he thinks in the annals of time. All he needs is a lab coat and he's Felix the Cats arch enemy. One has to be of an age to appreciate the reference.

#7 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2024-11-25 08:03 AM

Bolton is a neocon, but not an unpatriotic Dictator's Puppet like this Orban stooge.

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2024-11-23 05:30 PM | Reply | Flag:
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Oh sure, now you say he's a neocon. So is Liz Cheney now a neocon? The war mongers who hated Trump because he avoided wars all came out firing for Harris and now need to shut up and hide. Too bad for them that MSNBC is going down to tubes, they might have to flip burgers.

#8 | Posted by fishpaw at 2024-11-25 02:49 PM

FISHQUNT you support a liar, criminal and traitor to the nation.

You love Trump more than you love America.

It's a common theme amongst you MAGA morons.

#9 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-11-25 02:58 PM

FiSHPAWS wrote, "Trump because he avoided wars "

No. We were at war with ISIS in Syria and Iraq where the Kurds did the heavy fighting with the aid of US Special Forces and the US Air Force and then after these brave women and men defeated ISIS you pig hero betrayed them to be slaughtered by Turkish army. The Kurd forces lost 50,000 men and women fighting ISIS for the USA and your hero betrayed them and the Special Forces who will never forgive or forget that POS for doing that to them. We were also at war in Afghanistan while TRump was meeting secretly with the effing Taliban behind the official Afghan government and released thousands of Taliban prisoners and gave away that country to our enemy. Furthermore, Russian had invaded Ukraine in Crimea and the Donbass while that fat pig traitor was the POTUS and he went down on his knees in front of the entire world and gave Vlad Putler a-------- on television while he was discrediting our own FBI, NSA and CIA in favor of that mass murderer in Moscow. Where you morons get this ---- that your orange ---- stain is a peacenik or patriot is beyond me.

#10 | Posted by Wildman62 at 2024-11-25 06:04 PM

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