With White House chief strategist Steve Bannon out on Friday, Sebastian Gorka might be next, according to a report.
Gorka, who is deputy assistant to President Trump, had been answering directly to Bannon and now has no immediate boss. The two also both worked at the conservative news site Breitbart.
With Bannon gone, a White House adviser told the Daily Beast that Gorka’s fate now is “extremely uncertain,” particularly because chief of staff John Kelly doesn’t seem to know what Gorka does besides participate in TV interviews to defend the president.
Some of Gorka’s often confrontational TV appearances have “displeased” Kelly, said one senior official.
Gorka’s fate in the White House has long been in question, with the Washington Examiner reporting in late April he would accept a role outside the White House.
However, the president reportedly likes Gorka’s pugnacious performances and says he’s popular with the president’s base.
The Daily Beast said Gorka is currently on vacation and would not comment for the story.
The heads of four minority caucuses earlier this week called on Trump to fire Gorka, along with Bannon and senior policy adviser Stephen Miller after the violent white nationalist groups’ rally in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend. They accused the trio of being supporters of white nationalism.
