Gorka, Bannon, and the View from Hungary

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🗓️ 6 April 2017

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Virginia Heffernan talks to Lili Bayer, a journalist in Central Europe who writes for Politico and The Forward, about the story of Sebastian Gorka (Trump's Chief Counter-Terrorism Adviser) and his far right wing roots. Plus, what are the parallels between the rise of the right in Hungary and in America? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:04.6	A few days ago, I called the fake news the enemy of the people and they are.
0:09.5	Apparently this is how they retaliate when you report facts they don't like.
0:13.6	This White House does not seem to value an independent press.
0:17.8	There is a word for that line of thinking.
0:20.5	The word is un-American.
0:23.2	Hello and welcome to Trumpcast.
0:29.6	I'm Virginia Heffernan.
0:31.2	Trumpcast is the show about the man who just removes Stephen Bannon, his chief strategist
0:35.1	and the former chairman of Breitbart News, off the principal's committee of the National
0:39.7	Security Council.
0:40.7	So you know how with kids you're supposed to applaud the little good things they do
0:44.6	like that they even thought about brushing their teeth rather than just yell at them for
0:48.6	the bad things?
0:50.4	So with Trump, maybe he deserves one cheer for taking Bannon off the NSC.
0:56.4	Yay!
0:58.4	Today my guest is Lily Bayer to talk about Bannon and especially Sebastian Gorka, another
1:04.1	Trump advisor with far-right connections.
1:07.1	She's done deep reporting especially on Gorka, a former Hungarian political leader who's
1:11.3	now president Trump's chief counterterrorism advisor.
1:14.9	She had a scoop this week in the forward about Gorka's having backed a violent anti-Semitic
1:19.2	militia.
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