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  1. "The finished product, released May 6 after months of delays, is a 16-page, typo-sprinkled document that ranks threats based on politics rather than intelligence assessments, according to several current and former counterterrorism officials and threat analysts."

    propublica.org/article/trump-c

    #gorka #trump #counterterrorism #terrorism #propublica

  2. #Gorka #fascists

    See also:

    "Seb Gorka Orders Europe to Harbo[u]r His Kind of Terrorists

    The Trump White House released the counterterrorism strategy authored by far right extremist Seb Gorka the other day.

    You’ll be unsurprised that Seb refuses to protect America from the far right terrorist threat, instead choosing to focus on the imaginary Antifa threat and to waste CT resources murderboating fisherman labeled as narcoterrorists.

    Aside from sheer dangerousness, Seb’s exclusion of far right terrorists is especially curious given that DOJ just invoked the CIPA process (reflecting the existence of classified evidence, and by extension a foreign nexus) in the case of white supremacist Payton Gendron who, in 2022, murdered 11 people in Buffalo.)

    The far right Hungarian-American Seb spews racist rants for four paragraphs, which rant he only interrupts with a claim that Europe has dispensed with 'traditional principles of freedom of speech.'
    Then he lays out his demands and insinuations. The US has 'expertise,' says the guy who claims Antifa is a thing, even a transnational thing. But they’ll only share it (and actionable intelligence, including actionable intelligence about may or may not include Russian, as well as Iranian, sabotage) with those 'serious' partners who 'understand' that Antifa, but not the far right, is a threat."

    emptywheel.net/2026/05/08/seb-

  3. #transrights #antifa #Gorka #fascists

    “'Counterterrorism' Now Officially Means Targeting Trans People

    The White House will prioritize the 'neutralization' of groups it considers 'anti-American, radically pro-transgender, and anarchist.'

    On Wednesday, the White House released a new 'United States Counterterrorism Strategy,' the first such directive since a 2021 Biden-era memo emphasizing the need to combat white supremacist violence, which has now been scrubbed from the White House website.

    Wednesday’s document, masterminded by White House 'counterterrorism czar' Sebastian Gorka, does not mention far-right violence at all. It identifies 'Violent Left-Wing Extremists, including Anarchists and Anti-Fascists' as a security threat of equal severity to 'Legacy Islamist Terrorists' and 'Narcoterrorists and Transnational Gangs.' The administration will now apparently 'prioritize the rapid identification and neutralization of violent secular political groups whose ideology is anti-American, radically pro-transgender, and anarchist.'

    In a bizarre but familiar turn, the document also blames transgender people for the shooting of Charlie Kirk. 'Americans have witnessed the politically motivated killings of Christians and conservatives committed by violent left-wing extremists, including the assassination of Charlie Kirk by a radical who espoused extreme transgender ideologies.'

    (. . .)

    Counterterrorism itself is a politicized term that came into common use following the September 11 attacks and the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. It formed part of the language of the policing apparatus that targeted Muslim and Arab Americans and legitimized surveillance of those communities as 'terrorist threats.' That same language is now being applied to transgender people.

    Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has called Kirk’s death a 'domestic 9/11.' The Heritage Foundation, too, has done its best to connect being transgender with the idea of terrorism, campaigning last year for the FBI to designate trans advocacy as violent extremism.

    'We will…identify their membership, map their ties to international organizations like Antifa, and use law enforcement tools to cripple them operationally,' the document says."

    motherjones.com/politics/2026/

  4. #Gorka report for #Trump admin: migration has made Europe an ‘incubator’ for terrorism in a new counter-terrorism strategy

    “The strategy focuses on rooting out “violent left-wing extremists” including “radically pro-transgender” groups, as Trump’s admin steps up its political attacks.

    It also places drug cartels in the Americas at the centre of counter-terrorism efforts.”

    theguardian.com/us-news/2026/m

  5. As an American, I believe Kilmar Armando Abrego deserves due process and should be returned to the United States.

    Call me whatever you want, #Gorka...

    #uspol #kilmarabregogarcia

  6. John Bolton rips into Trump’s pick for counter-terrorism chief Sebastian Gorka

    Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton has laid into #Sebastian #Gorka, the president-elect’s pick for
    👉counter-terrorism chief, as a “#conman
    whose selection is not “going to bode well for counter-terrorism efforts when the [national security council’s] senior director is somebody like that”.

    Trump praised Gorka, an immigrant from Hungary, as a “tireless advocate for the America First Agenda and the MAGA Movement”.

    But Bolton came out swinging at Gorka on Friday.
    The arch-conservative, who served in the Reagan, George W Bush and first Trump administrations, has set out his stall against many of Trump’s picks,
    including former Democrat and Iraq veteran #Tulsi #Gabbard for director of national intelligence, and told CNN that he “wouldn’t have him in any US government”.

    Earlier this week, Bolton told NewsNation’s 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’s nomination “was the
    💥worst cabinet appointment in recent American history”.

    Bolton’s not alone in his criticism. Democratic National Committee spokesperson Alex Floyd called
    “a far-right extremist who is as dangerous as he is unqualified to lead America’s counter-terrorism strategy”.

    Gorka is outspokenly pro-Israel and supportive of the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu,
    and has faced allegations of Islamophobia for supporting Trump’s 2017 Muslim travel ban that barred travel to the US for 90 days for visitors from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.

    Gorka also claimed that Islam is “not a religion of peace”.
    He’s come under fire for showing up at Trump’s 2017 inaugural ball wearing an honorary medal from the
    ⭐️Hungarian nationalist organization #Vitézi #Rend
    and for a previous position serving as an adviser to the Hungarian prime minister, #Viktor #Orbán.

    Bolton said Gorka “needs a full FBI field background investigation” and his “education claims” need to be investigated.

    “I think he is a perfect example of somebody who owes his position purely to Donald Trump,” Bolton told the outlet.
    “He doesn’t display loyalty. He displays fealty. And that’s what Trump wants. …
    “He doesn’t want Gorka’s opinions, he wants Gorka to say ‘yes, sir’, and I’m fully confident that’s exactly what will happen no matter what it is Trump says.”
    theguardian.com/us-news/2024/n

  7. Some of the #Strictly fans disparage the Couples choice. Yes there have been some bad ones over the years, but they would have been denied Bill and Oti's Rappers Delight, Rose & Giovanni's Symphony and #Helen & #Gorka's Mein Herr,

  8. Latest'n'Greatest, at my cartoon blog:
    "Media, Bloody Media" #NoWarWithIran #Gorka #FoxBusiness #Hyperpower

    Not even in the sickest depths of Iraq War v2.0 did I hear anyone in the media quite this wide-open raving, drooling and horny for war as ex-White House henchman and current right-wing radio howler Sebastian Gorka...

    sinkers.org/stage/?p=2908