Gorka: Carlson, Fuentes Not Conservatives

Sebastian Gorka, President Donald Trump's senior director for counterterrorism, stated in a recent interview that he does not consider Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes to be part of the conservative movement, amid the release of a new White House National Strategy for Counterterrorism.

Gorka made the remarks during an appearance on Breitbart editor-in-chief Alex Marlow's show last week. When asked about right-wing extremism as a potential threat, Gorka replied, "I'm not sure that Nick Fuentes or Tucker Carlson are conservatives. If you are lauding Sharia law, if you are saying that there are Muslim states that seem to be better qualitatively than America in terms of freedom and prosperity, I'm not sure that means you're part of the conservative movement. So if you remove those individuals and you understand that they're not conservatives, what's left?"

The comments followed the White House's unveiling of its National Strategy for Counterterrorism, which identifies three primary threats: narcoterrorists and transnational gangs, legacy Islamist terrorists, and violent left-wing extremists, including anarchists and antifascists. The document, informed by National Security...