Gorka can't stop talking.
No one is quite sure what
Sebastian Gorka, officially a deputy assistant to President Trump, actually
does at the White House. This hasn’t stopped him, however, from being a
near constant presence in the media.
Wednesday, Gorka appeared
on Breitbart News Daily, the radio show of his former employer. Gorka
responded to criticism stemming from a previous
media appearance on MSNBC where he said “[t]here’s no such thing as a lone
wolf” attack. The concept, according to Gorka, was “invented by the last
administration to make Americans stupid.”
The idea of a “lone wolf
attack,” Gorka says, is a ruse to point blame away from al Qaeda and ISIS when
“[t]here has never been a serious attack or a serious plot that was unconnected
from ISIS or al Qaeda.” Critics were quick to point to the example of Timothy
McVeigh, who was not connected to ISIS or al Qaeda and killed 168 people when
he bombed
a federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995.
On Wednesday, Gorka lashed out
at “at [New York Times reporter] Maggie Haberman and her acolytes in the fake
news media, who immediately have a conniption fit” and brought up McVeigh. He
added that “white men” and “white supremacists” are not “the problem.”
It’s this constant, “Oh, it’s
the white man. It’s the white supremacists. That’s the problem.” No, it isn’t,
Maggie Haberman. Go to Sinjar. Go to the Middle East, and tell me what the real
problem is today. Go to Manchester.
Gorka noted that the Oklahoma
City bombing was 22 years ago, which is true. But since 9/11, right-wing
extremists — almost always white men and frequently white supremacists — have
been far more deadly domestically than Muslim extremists. A study found that in
the first 13.5 years after 9/11, Muslim extremists were responsible for 50
deaths in the United States. Meanwhile, “right-wing extremists averaged 337 attacks per year in the
decade after 9/11, causing a total of 254 fatalities.”
You can listen to the entire
interview below. The specific discussion of white supremacists starts at 8:39:
https://soundcloud.com/breitbart/breitbart-news-daily-dr-sebastian-gorka-august-9-2017
Since Trump’s election there
has been a
rash of attacks by white supremacists targeting various minority groups.
When another top Trump adviser, Stephen Miller, recently promoted Trump’s plan
to drastically limit legal immigration, his arguments mirrored white
supremacist rhetoric.
Gorka himself has been
embroiled in controversy for his alleged
ties to a Nazi-linked group in Hungary.
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