{"id":129412,"date":"2024-11-24T04:40:17","date_gmt":"2024-11-23T21:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=129412"},"modified":"2024-11-24T04:40:17","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T21:40:17","slug":"john-bolton-rips-into-trumps-pick-for-counter-terrorism-chief-sebastian-gorka-trump-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=129412","title":{"rendered":"John Bolton rips into Trump\u2019s pick for counter-terrorism chief Sebastian Gorka | Trump administration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Trump\u2019s former national security adviser <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/john-bolton\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">John Bolton<\/a> has laid into Sebastian Gorka, the president-elect\u2019s pick for counter-terrorism chief, as a \u201cconman\u201d whose selection is not \u201cgoing to bode well for counter-terrorism efforts when the [national security council\u2019s] senior director is somebody like that\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Trump praised Gorka, an immigrant from Hungary, as a \u201ctireless advocate for the America First Agenda and the MAGA Movement\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">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\u2019s picks, including former Democrat and Iraq veteran Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/john-bolton-slams-trumps-choice-of-con-man-seb-gorka-as-counterterrorism-director\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">told CNN<\/a> that he \u201cwouldn\u2019t have him in any US government\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Earlier this week, Bolton told NewsNation\u2019s 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\u2019s nomination \u201cwas the worst cabinet appointment in recent American history\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"29297c32-036a-43af-ab2d-ccd7d8cdd143\" data-spacefinder-role=\"richLink\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.RichLinkBlockElement\" class=\" dcr-1your1i\"><gu-island name=\"RichLinkComponent\" priority=\"feature\" deferuntil=\"idle\" props=\"{&quot;richLinkIndex&quot;:4,&quot;element&quot;:{&quot;_type&quot;:&quot;model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.RichLinkBlockElement&quot;,&quot;prefix&quot;:&quot;Related: &quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Trump\u2019s cabinet and White House picks \u2013 so far&quot;,&quot;elementId&quot;:&quot;29297c32-036a-43af-ab2d-ccd7d8cdd143&quot;,&quot;role&quot;:&quot;richLink&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/nov\/19\/trump-cabinet-picks-administration-appointees&quot;},&quot;ajaxUrl&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/api.nextgen.guardianapps.co.uk&quot;,&quot;format&quot;:{&quot;design&quot;:0,&quot;display&quot;:0,&quot;theme&quot;:0}}\"\/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Bolton\u2019s not alone in his criticism. Democratic National Committee spokesperson Alex Floyd called Gorka \u201ca far-right extremist who is as dangerous as he is unqualified to lead America\u2019s counter-terrorism strategy\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Gorka is outspokenly pro-Israel and supportive of the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and has faced allegations of Islamophobia for supporting Trump\u2019s 2017 Muslim travel ban that barred travel to the US for 90 days for visitors from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Gorka also claimed that Islam is \u201cnot a religion of peace\u201d. He\u2019s come under fire for showing up at Trump\u2019s 2017 inaugural ball wearing an honorary medal from the Hungarian nationalist organization Vit\u00e9zi Rend and for a previous position serving as an adviser to the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orb\u00e1n.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">Bolton said Gorka \u201cneeds a full FBI field background investigation\u201d and his \u201ceducation claims\u201d need to be investigated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">\u201cI think he is a perfect example of somebody who owes his position purely to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Donald Trump<\/a>,\u201d Bolton told the outlet. \u201cHe doesn\u2019t display loyalty. He displays fealty. And that\u2019s what Trump wants. \u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1eu361v\">\u201cHe doesn\u2019t want Gorka\u2019s opinions, he wants Gorka to say \u2018yes, sir\u2019, and I\u2019m fully confident that\u2019s exactly what will happen no matter what it is Trump says.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/nov\/23\/john-bolton-sebastian-gorka-counter-terrorism-chief\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump\u2019s former national security adviser John Bolton has laid into Sebastian Gorka, the president-elect\u2019s pick for counter-terrorism chief, as a \u201cconman\u201d whose selection is not \u201cgoing to bode well for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=129412\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8629],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}