Sebastian Gorka blasts Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes: 'Not conservative'
Trump administration official Sebastian Gorka recently rebuked outspoken commentators Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes, asserting that neither man represents the conservative movement.
In an appearance on Breitbart News' “The Alex Marlow Show” last week, Gorka, the White House senior director for counterterrorism, discussed the terror threats facing the nation following the administration's release of a new Counterterrorism Strategy report. Gorka said he played a central role in crafting the document, which he described as a “career highlight.”
One of the main threats identified in the Counterterrorism Strategy report is “violent left-wing extremists.” Marlow asked Gorka if there were any examples of “right-wing terror,” prompting Gorka to highlight how the most prominent example took place more than 30 years ago with the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995.
After contrasting the decades-old example with the more recent incidents, such as the targeted shooting of Republicans which nearly killed Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., in 2017, the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk in 2025 and the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump just last month, Gorka addressed allegations that the Southern Poverty Law Center paid leaders of the organizations it claims to fight against including the Ku Klux Klan, the Aryan Nation and the National Alliance.
“If you are paying alleged putative conservative extremists, then you’re funding them as a left-wing organization, then what is that? Is that left-wing extremism or right-wing extremism?” he asked. “That is why it is imperative that what the FBI is doing, what the money trail investigations by, God bless him, [Secretary of the Treasury] Scott Bessent, will lead us to, will be crucial to understanding the real threat picture in America.”
“Right now, we are not seeing comparable trendlines to violence on the right as we see on the left,” said Gorka, stressing that “we have to have an effective, accurate snapshot of who is part of the conservative movement today.”
He continued, “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.”
Gorka was referring to recent comments made by Carlson in which he praised the “graciousness” and “politeness” of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, as well as the prevalence of “calm,” “stability” and “safety” of the Middle Eastern capital in contrast to Western cities.
“If you remove those individuals and you understand that they’re not conservatives, what’s left? Who are the people in the mainstream of the conservative movement, Alex, who are saying violence is OK? Hard to find people who aren’t fringe figures,” Gorka said.
As for Fuentes, both Marlow and Gorka contended that the polarizing figure had become a tool of the political left in their attempts to discredit the political right in the U.S.
“Now, he came out just a couple of days ago and said he’s a flat-out Democrat,” Marlow noted. After Marlow discussed how Fuentes had attracted a “huge audience” and shared his belief that it was “inorganic,” he pondered, “Who beefed up those bogus numbers?”
Gorka asked a series of rhetorical questions as he agreed with Marlow: “You’ve got to ask yourself, ‘In whose interest is it to do that?’ Is it those political entities who are seeing waning support for them, for their policies, for their extremism, for whatever it is, from climate alarmism to not being allowed to know what your children are being taught in school? There seems to be a cui bono question. Who benefits from amplifying or, in fact, exaggerating the threat of right-wing extremism? I think the answer to that question is clear.”
Marlow warned that the left might be "boosting" the exposure of people who could "drive a wedge within the MAGA movement.”
Ryan Foley is a reporter for The Christian Post. He can be reached at: ryan.foley@christianpost.com
