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Sebastian Gorka: “Their influence on MAGA and especially on the Commander in…”

Featuring: Sebastian Gorka, Deputy Assistant to the President, Senior Director for Counterterrorism | National

VDH Interviews Sebastian Gorka

Published August 30, 2025 | Video Starts at 56:13

… be anti Semitic with a thin veneer of, well, it's not about Jews, it's about Israel. The good news is these people exist. They're very loud on social media, but Their influence on MAGA and especially on the Commander in Chief is minimal. But we every single day must call them out. And before we finish, if I may, Professor, I want to say thank you to you, to Sammy, to Jack, for … (56:13–56:20)

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“The then Biden ambassador to the Ukraine illegally tasked the state department to collect my social media data along with Donald Trump Jr…”
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“20 million illegals [are in the United States].”
VDH Interviews Sebastian Gorka | Uploaded August 30, 2025 | 34:47-34:52
“Starr county in Texas? 92% Hispanic voted overwhelmingly for President Trump.”
VDH Interviews Sebastian Gorka | Uploaded August 30, 2025 | 35:34-35:42
“Canada to levy a 200% tariff on American dairy products.”
VDH Interviews Sebastian Gorka | Uploaded August 30, 2025 | 36:48-36:57
“Japan was levying a 7,100% tariff on American rice.”
VDH Interviews Sebastian Gorka | Uploaded August 30, 2025 | 37:40-37:47
“They [FBI] illegally provided those photographs to the New York Times and the Washington Post.”
VDH Interviews Sebastian Gorka | Uploaded August 30, 2025 | 03:06-26:02
“Whether it's 1.6 million deportations or self deportations.”
VDH Interviews Sebastian Gorka | Uploaded August 30, 2025 | 03:53-03:59
“Whether it's $5 trillion being brought back from the Middle East.”
VDH Interviews Sebastian Gorka | Uploaded August 30, 2025 | 03:58-04:03
“What the President is doing with tariffs is a complete rewriting of the global trade and economics environment.”
VDH Interviews Sebastian Gorka | Uploaded August 30, 2025 | 04:44-04:53
“America has not been a good partner. You've either demanded much of us and not delivered anything in exchange.”
VDH Interviews Sebastian Gorka | Uploaded August 30, 2025 | 06:47-06:56
“The Biden years saw our friends treated like enemies and our enemies treated like friends.”
VDH Interviews Sebastian Gorka | Uploaded August 30, 2025 | 07:31-07:38
“The Obama administration sends its lackeys into Israel to lobby and work against Netanyahu.”
VDH Interviews Sebastian Gorka | Uploaded August 30, 2025 | 07:42-07:51
“Under the Biden administration, literally billions of dollars unleashed for the purposes of a murderous regime [Iran].”
VDH Interviews Sebastian Gorka | Uploaded August 30, 2025 | 07:50-07:58
“President Trump is a preternatural geopolitical thinker.”
VDH Interviews Sebastian Gorka | Uploaded August 30, 2025 | 11:11-11:15
“Iran has pumped billions of dollars into the funding of proxies, Sunni and Shia.”
VDH Interviews Sebastian Gorka | Uploaded August 30, 2025 | 11:35-11:56
“Two things will not be permitted by this White House: the mullahs acquiring nuclear weapons and supporting proxies.”
VDH Interviews Sebastian Gorka | Uploaded August 30, 2025 | 11:56-12:04
“If Iran were not supporting the Myriad proxies of the region, the world would be a safer place.”
VDH Interviews Sebastian Gorka | Uploaded August 30, 2025 | 12:12-12:18
“ISIS is moving itself into parts of Africa because they can't build a caliphate or hangout in the Middle East.”
VDH Interviews Sebastian Gorka | Uploaded August 30, 2025 | 13:12-13:18
“We destroyed the physical caliphate of ISIS in short order.”
VDH Interviews Sebastian Gorka | Uploaded August 30, 2025 | 13:23-13:33
“We are drafting the President's new counterterrorism strategy.”
VDH Interviews Sebastian Gorka | Uploaded August 30, 2025 | 14:07-14:12
“Our intent under this president is to deal every single [jihadi group] such a debilitating blow that local partners, local actors, can…”
VDH Interviews Sebastian Gorka | Uploaded August 30, 2025 | 14:24-14:39
“We don't have traitors inside the building.”
VDH Interviews Sebastian Gorka | Uploaded August 30, 2025 | 15:44-15:47
“The state department cannot collect data on U.S. Persons.”
VDH Interviews Sebastian Gorka | Uploaded August 30, 2025 | 21:03-21:08
“The U.S. ambassador to the Ukraine [is] doing that [collecting data on U.S. Persons].”
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“The man I now work for was facing 700 years in prison.”
VDH Interviews Sebastian Gorka | Uploaded August 30, 2025 | 25:30-25:37
“His home was raided by armed agents of the FBI who came equipped with props.”
VDH Interviews Sebastian Gorka | Uploaded August 30, 2025 | 25:41-25:48
“January 6th defendants who committed no real crime, who walked peacefully through the halls of the Congress.”
VDH Interviews Sebastian Gorka | Uploaded August 30, 2025 | 26:15-26:22
“We now know what Brennan did along with Gina Haspel, and along with elements of the FBI and the CIA.”
VDH Interviews Sebastian Gorka | Uploaded August 30, 2025 | 26:44-26:52
“They used allied services to do an end run around the US Constitution and to spy on President Trump.”
VDH Interviews Sebastian Gorka | Uploaded August 30, 2025 | 26:52-27:01
“Donald Trump won the election in 16 without kissing the ring of the Republican establishment.”
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“Roe v. Wade has been struck down [thanks to Donald Trump].”
VDH Interviews Sebastian Gorka | Uploaded August 30, 2025 | 31:36-31:43
“We want to build ships in America. We want to have rare earth mineral processing in America.”
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“President Trump, one of the most successful businessmen for half a century, was a builder.”
VDH Interviews Sebastian Gorka | Uploaded August 30, 2025 | 45:03-45:11
“Builders must live in the real world. They must pay attention to the minutiae as well as to the hundred story skyscrapers, physics.”
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“The Rachel Maddows of the world, the Jim Acostas, the senior fellows at the think tanks across this city, the real world has no effect on…”
VDH Interviews Sebastian Gorka | Uploaded August 30, 2025 | 45:37-45:50
“We did not trigger the invasion of Ukraine.”
VDH Interviews Sebastian Gorka | Uploaded August 30, 2025 | 50:18-50:22
“Go and read the speeches of Vladimir Putin from 21 years ago when he said Ukraine, Poland and the Baltic states are all illegitimate and are…”
VDH Interviews Sebastian Gorka | Uploaded August 30, 2025 | 50:28-50:44
“I think we are the closest we've ever been to a resolution [in Ukraine].”
VDH Interviews Sebastian Gorka | Uploaded August 30, 2025 | 50:55-51:00
“The President wants to achieve, which is to stop the meat grinder, to stop the killing [in Ukraine].”
VDH Interviews Sebastian Gorka | Uploaded August 30, 2025 | 51:00-51:13
“If, however, you tie together the economies of Ukraine and America with thousands of businessmen, refinery workers, support staff, dozens or…”
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“All I'll say is I think we are very close to a resolution and at least we can say one thing. The meat grinder will end.”
VDH Interviews Sebastian Gorka | Uploaded August 30, 2025 | 52:47-52:56
“It's not about the truth. It's about I must have the maximal views.”
VDH Interviews Sebastian Gorka | Uploaded August 30, 2025 | 1:00:07-1:00:12
“All experts are wrong. There is no such thing as expertise.”
VDH Interviews Sebastian Gorka | Uploaded August 30, 2025 | 1:00:31-1:00:35
“Objective truth is real. Read a book and search for the truth, not for clicks.”
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“The greatest loss of Jewish life since the end of the Shoah, since the end of the Holocaust.”
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“President Trump is the first ever president as a sitting commander in chief to address the march for life.”
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“He's the first president to pray at the Wailing Wall, at the Temple Wall in Jerusalem.”
VDH Interviews Sebastian Gorka | Uploaded August 30, 2025 | 1:03:16-1:03:23
“The most philo Semitic president since the re establishment of Israel in 1948.”
VDH Interviews Sebastian Gorka | Uploaded August 30, 2025 | 1:03:22-1:03:28
“Fully behind [Israel's] desire to destroy everyone responsible for October 7th.”
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“What happened to World War three? I thought World War three was going to happen instantly. We took action against Tehran.”
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