Trump aide accuses news media of 'propaganda'

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill



BY MAX GREENWOOD - 05/20/17 11:48 AM EDT

President Trump's counterterrorism adviser denounced media reports on Saturday about ongoing investigations into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia as "propaganda."

"It’s not news, it’s not reporting, it’s just propaganda," Deputy Assistant to the President Sebastian Gorka said on Fox News' "Hannity." "We have a mission that we had approved by the American people, and we’re executing it."

Gorka, who before joining the Trump administration was a national security editor for the far-right Breitbart News, has been a vocal critic of the media's coverage of the Trump administration and has defended the president's frequent accusations that journalists who cover his administration critically are "fake news."

Gorka's comments follow a particularly tumultuous 10 days for the White House, which has faced numerous controversies in the wake of FBI Director James Comey's abrupt firing last week.



Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/media/334382-trump-aide-accuses-news-media-of-propaganda

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. tRump started as the Minority President & his minority keeps getting smaller.

His mission was NOT "approved by the American people".

Gorka has ties to white supremacist organizations in Eastern Europe.

[dalton99a]

2. Sebastian Gorka belongs in jail

[hedda_foil]

3. I thought I read they fired Gorka

[Raine1967]

8. I thought so as well. Turns out, not so much.

See my post below.

[certainot]

4. that's what 1000 radio stations will repeat, again,

all over the country. heard it from the local idiot this morning in a slightly different way as he did more hours attacking the 'liberal media' as it tries to do its job vs trump

he had a list of years of republican fake news 'scandals' by clinton and obama including benghazi and emails etc

[Liberalagogo]

5. Do these idiots NOT know

the definition of PROJECTION?

Obvious projection is obvious.

[Solly Mack]

6. Snort

[Raine1967]

7. I thought Gorka was gone. Turns out he's got a slow leave:

and now I gotta wonder WTF is happening.

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/331318-sebastian-gorka-to-accept-position-outside-white-house-report

A senior White House official confirmed to The Hill on Sunday that Sebastian Gorka, a deputy assistant to the president, will be departing that role as soon as "this summer."

The same official said that Gorka, 46, was brought in to the Trump administration to initially provide big picture, counter-terrorism expertise.

"To defeat extreme Islamic terrorism, you can't kill your way out of the problem. A plan is needed to defeat the ideology the same way Nazism was defeated" the official, who asked not to be named, said.

"[Gorka] was here to provide an overall strategy in that regard."

Gorka will take an outside position that deals with the "war of ideas" regarding radical Islamic extremism, sources told The Washington Examiner on Sunday.

So Gorka is only kinda gone. WHAT THE F*CK.

[hedda_foil]

10. A and the shit show goes on.

[bucolic_frolic]

9. RICH.

[kwassa]

11. Pot, kettle, black.

[WhoWoodaKnew]

12. Fox News? Rush? Sean?

[SergeStorms]

13. So, a reich-wing propagandist....

who used to work for a reich-wing propagandist "news" source, is accusing the ACTUAL media of spreading "propaganda" about our Russian loving pseudo-president? Sure thing. Only Hannity would give this asshole the time of day.