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Sebastian Gorka: “Whether it's $5 trillion being brought back from the Middle…”

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

VDH Interviews Sebastian Gorka

Published August 30, 2025 | Video Starts at 03:58

I cut my teeth 30 years ago on NATO issues. We dreamt of having partners spending 2%. The president has ratcheted that up to 5%. Whether it's 1.6 million deportations or self deportations, Whether it's $5 trillion being brought back from the Middle East. whether it is. I was in the Sit Room, I was in the Situation Room during Operation Midnight Hammer. (03:58–04:03)

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“The president has ratcheted [NATO GDP spending] up to 5%.”
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“Mark Milley, who was on the hotline with Beijing telling them, don't worry if Donald Trump wants to go to war as president, I'll give you a…”
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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
“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.”
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“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.”
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“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].”
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“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.”
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“Their influence on MAGA and especially on the Commander in Chief is minimal.”
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“It's not about the truth. It's about I must have the maximal views.”
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“All experts are wrong. There is no such thing as expertise.”
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“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.”
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“The most philo Semitic president since the re establishment of Israel in 1948.”
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“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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