Trump's Counterterrorism Czar Without a Counterterrorism Plan

Originally published at: Trump’s Counterterrorism Czar Without a Counterterrorism Plan - TPM – Talking Points Memo

This story was originally published by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. March unfolded like a stress test for U.S. counterterrorism authorities. The month opened with a gunman in an Iranian-flag shirt killing three people at a bar in Texas. Then, an…

Sebastian Gorka is just like Donald Trump and most of the MAGAts, i.e. an impotent, self-righteous, unproductive, unrepentant bully.

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He is such an awful, simplistic, brutal man. And he should be disliked and shunned for that. But every time I see his picture I just think “That big-headed bastard.”

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Mental illness abounds in the Trump administration. He and Hegseth must be buds.

Thanks for the likely explanation of where his dozens of dead jihadies came from (Footaoldiers), but i wonder if he includes some of the alleged nacrotrafficers being killed on rhe boat strikes.

Gorka is a loud-mouthed schmuck who generally is incompetent and grandstanding. Not sure why it takes so many paragraphs to get to the kernal of that nut but here we are.

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I actually read Gorka’s PhD during Trump I. The thesis, if one can call it that, was pure idiotic dribble. Total BS upon BS.

The fact that his PhD school, Corvinus University of Budapest, requires no minimal GPA to enroll, and is ranked 1000-1200 by QS World University Rankings 2025 indicates the profs probably didn’t read his thesis.

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I think Trump WANTS a terrorist attack to justify declaring a state of emergency so he can further expand his authoritarian agenda.