Sebastian Gorka has accused Carlson of joining the ranks of violent left-wing radicals<\/p>\n
US President Donald Trump\u2019s counterterrorism director has suggested that two of the president\u2019s loudest critics \u2013 Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes \u2013 are considered potential left-wing threats by the White House.
\nThe White House released its National Strategy for Counterterrorism last week, which labels \u201cNarcoterrorists and Transnational Gangs, Legacy Islamist Terrorists, [and] Violent Left-Wing Extremists, including Anarchists and Anti-Fascists\u201d as the three most pressing terror threats to the US.
\nThe inclusion of \u201cViolent Left-Wing Extremists\u201d is no surprise, given that the strategy was released after three assassination attempts against Trump and the public execution of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk, and after Trump\u2019s National Security Presidential Memorandum NPSM-7 identified \u201canti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity\u201d as indicators of potential \u201cviolent and terroristic activities.\u201d
\nThe report makes no mention of right-wing terrorism. However, a comment by its author, Sebastian Gorka, which flew under the radar last week, suggests that some of the president\u2019s former allies are now considered national security threats.<\/p>\n
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Speaking to Breitbart editor Alex Marlow on Friday, Gorka was asked whether he regards \u201cright-wing extremism\u201d as \u201ca threat at all.\u201d
\n\u201cI\u2019m not sure that Nick Fuentes or Tucker Carlson are conservatives,\u201d Gorka replied. \u201cIf you are lauding Sharia law, if you are saying that there are Muslim states that seem to be better qualitatively than America in terms of freedom and prosperity, I\u2019m not sure that means you\u2019re part of the conservative movement. So if you remove those individuals and you understand that they\u2019re not conservatives, what\u2019s left?\u201d
\nGorka\u2019s comment implies that, stripped of their \u201cconservative\u201d credentials, Fuentes and Carlson are the kind of left-wing extremists that the Trump administration will target.
\nNick Fuentes is a hardline nationalist and opponent of Trump, whose inflammatory comments \u2013 \u201cJews are running society, Women need to shut the f**k up, and Blacks need to be imprisoned for the most part.\u201d \u2013 saw him banned from every major social media platform in 2020. He has since been reinstated on X, and his daily livestreams sometimes draw hundreds of thousands of viewers.<\/p>\n
FUENTES: \u2018Jews are running society, women need to shut the F**K UP, blacks need to be imprisoned for the most part\u2019PIERS: \u2018Would you like to clarify what you meant there?\u2019FUENTES: ‘That\u2019s all true\u2026 everything I said in that clip is true\u2019 https:\/\/t.co\/sOEsOYzYF2 pic.twitter.com\/I8LRLf2xug\u2014 RT (@RT_com) December 8, 2025 <\/p>\n
Tucker Carlson is a former Fox News host and supporter of Trump, whose relationship with the president has soured in recent months over Trump\u2019s apparent deference to Israel and the war on Iran.
\nWhat happened between Tucker Carlson and Trump?
\nCarlson was a vocal supporter and regular confidant of Trump during the president\u2019s first term in office, and campaigned for his reelection in 2024. Carlson grew more critical of American support for Israel\u2019s war in Gaza over the last two years, and publicly called on Trump not to take military action against Iran in June 2025, when Israel was waging its 12-Day War against the Islamic Republic.
\nTrump, who dismissed Carlson\u2019s advice and ordered the bombing of Iranian nuclear sites, called Carlson \u201ckooky,\u201d but the two remained in regular contact.
\nHowever, the rift between the former Fox News host and the president reached its nadir when the US and Israel began striking Iran in late February, with Carlson calling the war \u201cdisgusting and evil,\u201d and accusing Trump of doing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s bidding by waging it.
\nCarlson hammered Trump for issuing a profane message to Iran on Easter Sunday, calling the president\u2019s threat to target Iranian civilian infrastructure \u201cvile on every level.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow dare you speak that way on Easter morning to the country?\u201d Carlson said in a monologue on his podcast. \u201cWho do you think you are? You\u2019re tweeting out the f-word on Easter morning.\u201dTrump responded by declaring Carlson an enemy of the MAGA movement, describing him as a \u201cflailing fool\u201d who should \u201csee a good psychiatrist.\u201d
\nWho else has Trump fallen out with?
\nTrump has fallen out with several prominent right-wing media personalities over the war with Iran, including Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, and Alex Jones. In a lengthy social media post in April, he called these figures \u201cnut jobs\u201d and \u201ctroublemakers\u201d who \u201cthink it is wonderful for Iran, the number one state sponsor of terror, to have a nuclear weapon.\u201d
\n\u201cThey have one thing in common, low IQs,\u201d he claimed. \u201cThey\u2019re stupid people, they know it, their families know it, and everyone else knows it, too!\u201d<\/p>\n
A Truth Social post by Donald Trump, April 17, 2026<\/p>\n
Carlson, Owens, and Nick Fuentes were all included in a top-ten list of \u201canti-Semite and anti-Zionist\u201d influencers published by Israel\u2019s Ministry for Diaspora Affairs in April.
\nGorka\u2019s statement is not the first indication that Trump intends to turn the power of the state against some of his former supporters. The former head of the US National Counterterrorism Center, Joe Kent, is currently under FBI investigation for leaking classified information, after he resigned from his position in March and publicly denounced the war on Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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