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Sebastian Gorka Launches New Show With Far-Right Canadian Outlet

Sebastian Gorka speaks at the 2017 CPAC in National Harbor, Maryland. (Photo by Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons)

Sebastian Gorka, who once served as a White House aide to President Trump, has launched(link is external) a new show with Canadian far-right news outlet The Rebel called “The Gorka Briefing.”

Gorka was ousted(link is external) from his White House position shortly after former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon left the administration to reclaim his throne at Breitbart News (before he was embarrassingly(link is external) fired(link is external)). Gorka reportedly claimed in a resignation letter(link is external) that he could best support Trump from “outside the People’s House.” He then teamed up with(link is external) Bannon to become a prominent voice at Breitbart News, but since Bannon was ousted that position, Gorka’s presence on the platform has dwindled.

Now Gorka has found a home at The Rebel, which as LobeLog reports(link is external), has previously hosted extreme far-right content such as a video in which former Rebel contributor Gavin McInnes, who now works at CRTV, defended Holocaust deniers and made a satirical video called “Ten Things I Hate About Jews.” Other Rebel contributors have been revealed(link is external) to hold extremist views.

On Friday, Gorka appeared in the first published episode(link is external) of “The Gorka Briefing,” where he set out to “untangle” reports about the special investigation into suspected Russian efforts to interfere with the 2016 general election. In the video, he explained that Russians meddling in foreign elections is not a new phenomenon and that acting as if it was is “ridiculous.”

He went on to call the Christopher Steele dossier a collection of “salacious stories that you’d find in a penny dreadful novel” and said that the federal government used “Russian disinformation to spy on an opposition party candidate” before going on to discuss the much-hyped FISA memo(link is external).

A follow-up(link is external) episode of “The Gorka Briefing” was dedicated to explaining “the real” President Trump and claiming that “so much rubbish” has been written about Trump.

“He’s had to put up with the kind of smears that would have made lesser men hide under a rock somewhere,” Gorka said.