Sebastian Gorka, the former deputy assistant to President Trump, blasted Fox News host Tucker Carlson for criticizing members of the Trump administration.
On Tuesday, Gorka reacted to a monologue Carlson gave one day prior criticizing Vice President Mike Pence, presidential adviser Jared Kushner, and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley for their reactions to nationwide police violence protests and riots that have occurred following the death of 46-year-old George Floyd.
“Tucker doesn’t know what he’s talking about. He’s a smart guy, but the things that he imputes to Jared [Kushner] or to anybody else in the White House, motivations. What is he? A bloody soothsayer? What is he, a bloody psychic taking shrooms? Tucker doesn’t know what he’s talking about,” Gorka said, calling Pence “one of the greatest political leaders of the modern age.”
Gorka said he did not object to Carlson’s characterizations of Haley, but accused him of failing to provide constructive criticisms of the Trump administration.
“A lot of the stuff Tucker said yesterday was correct when it came to Nikki Haley and others, but there’s one problem with his monologues. However smart Tucker thinks he is, he’s deploying a flame-thrower against the Left and conservatives. With what end, Tucker? What is your constructive criticism? None. You’re as bad as the people on the streets who are chanting with no objective.”
On Monday, Carlson took aim at several Republican leaders and accused Trump’s son-in-law of undermining Trump’s political instincts. “No one has more contempt for Donald Trump’s voters than Jared Kushner does. And no one expresses it more frequently,” Carlson said.
“The president’s famously sharp instincts, the ones that won the presidency almost four years ago, have been since subverted at every level by Jared Kushner. This is true on immigration, on foreign policy, and especially on law enforcement.”
During a speech in the Rose Garden on Monday, Trump said that “domestic terrorists” were responsible for the acts of vandalism, looting, and arson that have occurred since Floyd’s death.
“A police precinct has been overrun. Here in the nation’s capital, the Lincoln Memorial and the World War II Memorial have been vandalized,” Trump said in his remarks, though claiming he was an ally of peaceful protesters. “One of our most historic churches was set ablaze. A federal officer in California and an African American enforcement hero was shot and killed. These are not acts of peaceful protests. These are acts of domestic terror.”
Attorney General William Barr said Saturday that “anarchic” and “far-left extremist groups” could potentially be those responsible for growing violence and riots amid the protests over police violence. On Sunday, Barr declared that the violence being “instigated and carried out” by “antifa and other similar groups” in connection to nationwide protesting is “domestic terrorism and will be treated accordingly.”
