It is not easy to be the man who whispers in Donald Trump’s ear suggestions on how to manage the war on terror. Also because of the upheavals in the terrorist organizations active in the Middle East these days, and certainly because of the ear into which the words are whispered. Dr. Sebastian Gorka is that man, whom the president-elect announced he was appointing as senior director of counterterrorism at the National Security Council and senior assistant to the president. Trump brought Gorka from his first term, when he served as national security adviser. In an exclusive conversation with Globes, Gorka talks about the Trump doctrine In international relations, his attitude towards Israel and post-election America.
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The president-elect threatened that if Hamas does not release the abductees by the time he takes office on January 20, they will pay a heavy price. Can you explain what that means? What should we expect from him on the subject?
“It would be inappropriate on my part to do so. But the necessary conclusions can be drawn from the way Trump led America and the West in his first round in the Oval Office. We stood by anyone who wants to be close to us, especially Israel. Trump is the most philosophic president since the establishment of Israel in – 1948. Prime Minister Netanyahu, the IDF and Israel will benefit from his support immediately upon his inauguration on January 20.”
“The Democratic Party is radical madness”
Gorka, born in the UK and with Hungarian roots, specializes in national security, terrorism and foreign policy issues. He was known for his strong, and sometimes blunt, approach to global terrorist threats, and his enthusiastic support for Trump’s “America First” policy. Gorka currently serves as a very popular radio and podcast host in the US, and continues to stir controversy for his direct and controversial views.
How will Trump’s attitude towards US friends, such as Israel, be different compared to the Biden administration?
“The Democratic Party is an anti-Semitic party that is full of Jew-haters, proud supporters of the BDS movement. Rashida Tlaib (Congresswoman of Palestinian origin, AO), for example, on her first day in office as a Democratic Congresswoman, stuck a yellow note on the map of the Middle East in her office, covering the word Israel in the word Palestine. Ilhan Omar (congresswoman of Somali origin, AU) tweeted about the Jews who ‘hypnotized the West with the Benjamins’ (an expression for American money, named after Benjamin Franklin that is emblazoned on the hundred dollar bill). These are classic anti-Semitic slanders and this is the Democratic Party the modern.
“Biden, after the Gaza hospital bombing that was first blamed on Israel and then we found out it was Hamas or Islamic Jihad rockets, said, I guess these guys need to learn to shoot straight – that’s Joe Biden saying that jihadists need to be able to kill More Jews in an accurate way. This is the madness of the Democratic Party. This is not the party of President Kennedy, this is a radical leftist movement, pro-Hamas. Pro-Black Lives Matter is a fundamentally anti-American party, so the difference between the Biden and Kamala Harris administration and the Trump administration could not be more stark.”
“If you’re a threat, you better be careful”
In Trump’s first term, Gorka was a partner in formulating the administration’s policy on terrorism and national security, with an emphasis on the fight against radical Islamist organizations. His tenure has often provoked criticism, both from opponents of the administration and in the professional community, due to his direct style. Gorka left his post after about eight months, but continued to publicly defend Trump’s policies and serve as one of his prominent spokesmen in the conservative media.
“When we were in the White House the first time I was asked what was President Trump’s foreign policy and national security policy. I came from two and a half years of working with the Marine Corps as a professor at Quantico, and I took a line from what the Marine Corps is taught. I said, under Trump, there is no better friend, no worse enemy More. If you are a friend of America, like Israel, Britain and so on, we will be your friends and stand by you. If you are a threat to the Judeo-Christian civilization, like Iran And the like, you should be careful, because the American leadership is back, it’s really that simple.”
Do you think that by the time Trump is sworn in, the enemies of the US and its friends may be more dangerous, because they should not follow her?
“The situation is troubling because we have a senile old man in the White House who thinks Angola is a city and not a nation. That’s what he said when he ran to Africa, just after he pardoned his son for crimes he had committed. This is the man with the launch codes for the nuclear weapons within 30 feet. So we have A problem with who is responsible for the world’s formidable defense capability. Then we have bad actors – China, the global jihad movement, Iran and North Korea, and others who may see the next 40 days as a window to act. But the rational thing for them is not to, because then they’ll have hell to pay on January 20. The question is whether or not they’re rational actors, and if they realize that Trump is only weeks away from being there again Commander-in-Chief of the American Armed Forces.”
Abraham’s agreements are among Trump’s achievements. Nobody thought it was possible, but quite a few countries – the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan – signed them. In the next four years more countries will join the agreement?
“What do you think?”, answers Gorka with a smile. “There are things we won’t talk about before the president is sworn in. We don’t give advance information to our enemies. But look what we did when we were in the White House. Thanks to the work of Jared Kushner (Trump’s son-in-law, who served as his senior advisor, AO) and thanks to Jason Greenblatt (a lawyer who was the vice president and his legal advisor, A. O.), we had a series of peace agreements that the region had never seen before. So what will happen in the next four years, it’s not a complicated question.”
“If you threaten the security of a group, there will be a price”
After October 7 in the USA there were riots on campuses and in front of Jewish institutions. What can we expect from the president-elect on this issue?
“Thank God we have the First Amendment to the Constitution which allows for free speech. However, there needs to be some consequence for institutions that receive billions of dollars every year from the federal taxpayer, like the Ivy League colleges, to not allow the dissemination of anti-Semitic language. And it’s not just with regard to students The Jews. If you threaten the security of any group based on their ethnicity, their religious identity, the color of their skin – there is a price to pay. And if you’re Harvard, Yale, or Penn and you think the federal government will fund an institution that allows such abuse of students’ civil rights, then no. There will be consequences. We can’t accept the funding of genocidal language from government sources, simply because they are afraid Too much to deal with.”
Since Trump’s re-election, there has been a lot of talk about the fact that this is the end of woke politics. do you agree
“Several conservative commentators, including my friends, have already stated that this is the case in the last four weeks. I don’t think it’s time to open the champagne bottles. What the president did was amazing: a man who has been blackballed for nine years, accused of misogyny, racism, anti-Semitism, white supremacy .This man got record support from the Latino community, even from suburban white women who kept saying they hated Donald Trump In Texas, for example, it’s 93% Hispanic – and they haven’t voted for a Republican candidate in over a century. So maybe he’s dead and stuck in his heart? It’s too early in these ideas.
“When it comes to powerful institutions, whether academia, the media, the tech giants – this attitude dominates. There is only one non-vocalist platform in favor of free speech, and that is X. If Elon Musk hadn’t bought Twitter for $40 billion, I’m not sure we would be We see the American people taking back their country in the elections on November 5. So as long as Hollywood, academia, Facebook and Google are in undemocratic positions, we have a lot of work to do.”
Donald Trump and Elon Musk during the campaign. “Trump has broken politics” / photo: ap, Brandon Bell
“The people have spoken, will Capitol Hill listen?”
Trump announced his appointments and since then there has been a trickle of negative stories about them in the media. For example, the candidate for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, whose even an email his mother sent was leaked. How do you see this matter?
“It’s very simple. The unelected and unaccountable elite want to sabotage the will of 76 million Americans. The unelected bureaucrats, the so-called elitist and un-American ‘Deep State,’ in the media, in the bureaucracy, in the lobbying sectors throughout Washington, DC, want to stop Trump. Pete Heseth is a decorated soldier, a man who wrote a book this year about what it takes to reform the Pentagon Arrest him. Obviously they’re going to lie to his mother. Cash Patel, who I’ve been working to push for the FBI head, is now sold to us as an incompetent man with 16 years of government service, a chief investigator of The congressional intelligence committee, who was in my position as the head of counterterrorism in the white house, this guy is unfit for the job? That says it all, they tried to stop Trump with An assassin’s bullet, and they will try to sabotage his candidates. But that’s what the American people voted for. They voted for responsibility and that’s why we’re witnessing it.”
Do you expect Congress to allow the president and his cabinet to implement his all-encompassing reforms and agenda, or do you expect difficulty despite the narrow Republican majority?
“Depends on whether the concerned people on Capitol Hill understand what America did on November 5th. It’s very simple: Get on top of the ‘America First’ and drain the swamp agenda, or as a congressman, senator or anyone else, you will pay a very heavy political price in the election In two or four years, the American people have spoken, from Elon Musk to the small shop owner in Harlem who joined the campaign. I was in Butler, Pennsylvania, when the president returned to her Shot there. It’s an area where working class Americans live. And the president has been talking for about 20 minutes, and I’m standing right behind J.D. Vance, and all of a sudden the crowd starts yelling, ‘Alon Alon Alon.’ Still talking and they realized that Musk is in the front row, and rural Pennsylvanians are chanting the name of a tech billionaire immigrant from Africa. If you read about it in a book, you’d say it’s not Likely, but that’s what happened. Trump in this sense broke politics. Every kind of social category is less important here. So will the Capitol Hill listen?”
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