John Bolton offered a brutal assessment of Sebastian Gorka, Donald Trump’s controversial pick to be a deputy assistant to the president and the senior director for counterterrorism, as he reacted to the president-elect’s announcement on Friday.
“Well, Sebastian Gorka is a con man,” said Bolton, a former national security adviser under Trump, in an interview with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins.
“I wouldn’t have him in any U.S. government. Fortunately, it’s not the highest position he had been mentioned for. But I don’t think it’s going to bode well for counterterrorism efforts when the NSC senior director is somebody like that.”
Gorka, who briefly served as a deputy assistant to the president in Trump’s first term, made headlines in March 2017 following a report on his membership to a Hungarian far-right group with historical ties to Nazi Germany. He later denied that he was a member of the group.
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