Gorka, a former Breitbart News editor and conservative radio personality, has served as the deputy assistant to the president and senior director for counterterrorism since January 2025.
The position at the National Counterterrorism Center has been open since Joe Kent resigned last month over the war in Iran. In his exit letter, Kent argued that Iran “posed no imminent threat” to the U.S., and that there was no available intel suggesting that Iran was trying to develop nuclear weapons.
Four people familiar with Gorka’s potential political ascension told The Washington Post Wednesday that it would give him “broad powers over the country’s vast counterterrorism apparatus.”
His influence could make the country a hostile place for anyone the administration deems a leftist. At the National Security Council, Gorka has advocated to expand the definition of terrorist threats to include far-left groups. His work bore a result: in September, the White House branded Antifa—a catchall for self-described antifascists—as a terrorist organization. The executive order deemed Antifa as a “domestic terrorist organization,” although the Post reported that no such label exists in federal law.
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