Former national security adviser H.R. McMaster responded negatively when asked if Sebastian Gorka, who President-elect Trump recently named as the deputy assistant to the president and senior director for counterterrorism in his upcoming administration, is “a good person to advise on national security.”
“Is he a good person to advise on national security?” CBS News’s Margaret Brennan asked McMaster on Sunday’s “Face the Nation.
“No, no, he’s not, Margaret. But … you know, I think that … that the president, others who are working with him, will probably determine that pretty quickly, soon after he gets into that job,” McMaster said of Gorka.
In a Friday statement, Trump said that “Dr. Gorka has been a tireless advocate for the America First Agenda and the MAGA Movement, serving previously as Strategist to the President in the first Trump Administration” for nine years.
