{"id":2667550,"date":"2026-09-22T13:31:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T17:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-seb-gorka-takes-over-interview-turns-politico-reporter-into-fumbling-mess-trying-and-failing-to-defend-her-gutter-press-org\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T13:34:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T17:34:46","slug":"watch-seb-gorka-takes-over-interview-turns-politico-reporter-into-fumbling-mess-trying-and-failing-to-defend-her-gutter-press-org","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-seb-gorka-takes-over-interview-turns-politico-reporter-into-fumbling-mess-trying-and-failing-to-defend-her-gutter-press-org\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Seb Gorka Takes Over Interview, Turns Politico Reporter Into Fumbling Mess Trying (And Failing) to Defend Her &#8216;Gutter Press&#8217; Org"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">42<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-seb-gorka-takes-over-interview-turns-politico-reporter-into-fumbling-mess-trying-and-failing-to-defend-her-gutter-press-org%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2667550&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>the content discusses recent controversies involving the Trump administration\u2019s actions toward certain media outlets, notably Politico, CNN, and MS NOW. President Trump publicly announced bans on these outlets from the White House, accusing them of spreading \u201cfake news.\u201d Politico responded with a legal challenge, citing First Amendment rights that protect the press from government suppression. The article highlights a specific incident where Sebastian Gorka, a former advisor, criticizes Politico for reporting on immigration issues, notably the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an alleged MS-13 gang member, which Gorka claims was misrepresented. Gorka defends the administration\u2019s stance, condemns what he calls \u201cfake news,\u201d and criticizes Politico and other outlets for allegedly ignoring stories about crimes committed by illegal immigrants while focusing on deportation issues. The <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >piece underscores ongoing tensions<\/a> between the press and the Trump administration, emphasizing concerns over media bias, free speech, and political influence on journalism.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been a busy week for news about the news, what with three major news outlets now banned from the White House grounds. All three are suing President Donald Trump\u2019s administration on First Amendment grounds, and may potentially win, given the history of these things.<\/p>\n<p>That said, one of the banned outlets, Politico, proved exactly why they\u2019re not welcome at 1600 Pennsylvania for the moment in a 2025 exchange with Sebastian Gorka, deputy assistant to the president and senior director for counterterrorism in the Trump administration. It\u2019s now going viral again thanks to Gorka, who posted it to remind everybody why the left-leaning Beltway outlet got a ban in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who missed it, on Friday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/breaking-trump-bans-fake-news-cnn-ms-now-politico-white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump announced<\/a> on  that Politico, along with CNN and MS NOW, were banned for \u201ctheir constant \u2018reporting\u2019 FAKE NEWS!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMedia Outlets shouldn\u2019t be able to constantly write or report FICTION and LIES when they\u2019re covering the President of the United States, the Trump Administration, or the United States of America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"truthsocial-embed\" style=\"max-width: 100%; border: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/117293599348325006\/embed\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><script src=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/embed.js\" async=\"async\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-ban-ms-now-media-cnn-politico-72f9acf68244ca70e9078d9d3661c722\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Associated Press<\/a>, the three outlets filed suit Monday, saying that the First Amendment \u201cdoes not allow a president or any other government official to deprive the press of their First Amendment rights and liberty and property interests with no notice or process based solely on his dislike of the content of their reporting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s worth noting that we\u2019ve been through this wringer before with Jim Acosta\u2019s preposterous reportage during the first Trump administration and, after CNN sued, his credentials were restored. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/09\/21\/timothy-kelly-judge-white-house-ban-lawsuit-01086120\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Politico<\/a> reported that the judge in the case was a Trump appointee who nevertheless <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-cnns-acosta-battles-sarah-sanders-getting-white-house-pass-back\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">restored Acosta\u2019s pass<\/a> in 2018, so it\u2019s unlikely that this goes much differently.<\/p>\n<p>One should not be so interested in that as in the fact that a president would take this step at all, and why he would take it. Gorka reminded us by taking us back to May of 2025, when he was at the Politico Security Summit and speaking to the outlet\u2019s White House bureau chief, Dasha Burns.<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-embed\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Full Interview with Sebastian Gorka | POLITICO Security Summit\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CCyAkxfOiW4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Burns was Very Concerned\u2122 about the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the alleged MS-13 gang member who was rounded up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and returned to his native El Salvador; he was brought back after a judge ruled that he couldn\u2019t be deported to there. His case is still working its way through the justice system and he remains free under ICE supervision, but the reporting on him as a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/fact-check-trump-administration-send-innocent-father-maryland-el-salvador-prison\/\">Maryland father<\/a>\u201d was grossly out of line.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, Politico was buying it and Dasha Burns wasn\u2019t buying that Abrego Garcia had ties to a gang, implying in a question that Gorka and others in the administration thought \u201cit\u2019s OK to skirt due process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNever happened. Due process has never been skirted,\u201d Gorka responded. \u201cPolitico used the \u2018Maryland father,\u2019 fake news \u2014 Maryland father, twice adjudicated by an immigration judge to be here illegally and to be deported. An individual who\u2019s arrested on body cam footage, anyone watching right now can watch him being stopped by local police with seven illegals in his vehicle and no driving license. An individual who\u2019s arrested on body cam footage, anyone watching right now can watch him being stopped by local police with seven illegals in his vehicle and no driving license. And this is a Maryland father for Politico.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that MS-13 had been declared a foreign terrorist organization, and noted that Abrego Garcia had tattoos on his knuckles strongly suggestive of MS-13 membership.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe tattoo did not say MS-13,\u201d Burns said, quickly adding, \u201cI don\u2019t want to get into that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And away <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/dr-gorka-world-ends-12-years-like-aoc-said-can-least-drill-america-like-saudi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gorka<\/a> went.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just accidents that the four symbols represent the letters MS-13,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is why Politico is a joke. This is why you are gutter press and fake news. That those four symbols that just happen to comport with the letters MS and the numbers 13 don\u2019t in this case represent MS-13? You\u2019re sitting here live defending a member of MS-13. That\u2019s why I regret coming here, because this isn\u2019t journalism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gorka then noted that Politico was more interested in deportation of illegals than those killed by illegals, like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-mother-jocelyn-nungaray-fires-back-cowardly-democrats-antics-trumps-address\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jocelyn Nungaray<\/a>, a Texas 12-year-old raped and killed, allegedly by two individuals described by <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2024\/06\/27\/us\/what-we-know-houston-jocelyn-nungaray-killing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a> as \u201cundocumented men from Venezuela.\u201d Of course.<\/p>\n<p>He then told a story about Rep. Dan Crenshaw, who \u201ctold me a story once of a 16-year-old girl who came, was smuggled across this border.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe parents paid $5,000 for her to live in America, the land of milk and honey. She ended up locked in a room in New York, raped by more than a dozen men every day for 18 months until she escaped. She went to Dan Crenshaw\u2019s office \u2026 that girl said to him, please close the border so another girl doesn\u2019t have to be raped by 12 strange men every day for 18 months.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s strange that Politico doesn\u2019t cover those stories. Could you tell me why?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Burns, you will not be surprised to learn, couldn\u2019t really:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Do you want to really know why President <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/realDonaldTrump?\">@realDonaldTrump<\/a> is banning \u201cmedia\u201d outlets like <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/politico?\">@POLITICO<\/a> from the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WhiteHouse?\">@WhiteHouse<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s why: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/k0mqos5X0R\">pic.twitter.com\/k0mqos5X0R<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sebastian Gorka DrG (@SebGorka) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SebGorka\/status\/2101345673585004794?\">September 19, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>But again, Politico was always slow on the uptake, and Burns wanted to \u201cmove on.\u201d I bet she did.<\/p>\n<p>This is the problem that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/op-ed-tuckers-deceitful-antichrist-hoax-provably-false-case-trump-derangement-syndrome\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump Derangement Syndrome<\/a> outlets have had with the administration: They want to cover it on their own terms and still be treated as nonpartisan outlets. For years, this worked. It still does, to a certain extent, but now nobody trusts the narrative outside their own bubble. 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