Saturday, August 26, 2017

The Hill -- Gorka leaves White House post


Sebastian Gorka, special assistant to President Trump, is no longer working at the White House.

According to Gorka, he resigned out of frustration of being surrounded by people who had no interest in making America great again. But the scuttlebutt is that he resigned after he was told by White House Chief of Staff John Kelly that his security clearance was revoked.

Without a security clearance, it would be impossible for Gorka to continue as special assistant to President Trump. He, therefore, submitted a letter of resignation in which he wrote, “. . . the best and most effective way I can support you, Mr. President is from outside the People’s House."

In his first month in the White House, the retired four-star Marine [John Kelly] has been behind the purge of both Bannon, a chief strategist, and communications director Anthony Scaramucci. Gorka, a former national security editor at Breitbart and an ally of Bannon's, was widely suspected to be his next scalp."

Steve Bannon, executive chairman of Breitbart News and Gorka will continue to support Trump

After his departure from the White House, Bannon said, “If there’s any confusion out there, let me clear it up: I’m leaving the White House and going to war for Trump against his opponents -- on Capitol Hill, in the media, and in corporate America.”

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By Julia Manchester, Katie Bo Williams