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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Mon Jan 8, 2018, 04:59 PM Jan 2018

'You had one job': Internet roasts ex-Trump adviser's hilariously botched attempt to discredit Wolff

BRAD REED
08 JAN 2018 AT 15:27 ET

Former Trump adviser Sebastian Gorka on Monday published an editorial in The Hill in which he tried to discredit Michael Wolff, the author of the bestselling book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House. However, Gorka seems to have inadvertently undermined President Donald Trump’s claim that Wolff was not given wide access to the White House to report on his book.

“When I met Michael Wolff in Reince Priebus’ office, where he was waiting to talk to Steve Bannon, and after I had been told to also speak to him for his book, my attitude was polite but firm: ‘Thanks but no thanks,'” writes Gorka. “Our brief encounter reinforced my gut feeling that this oleaginous scribe had no interest in being fair and unbiased.”

This statement contradicts Trump’s insistence last week that he “authorized Zero access to White House (actually turned him down many times) for author of phony book.” After all, if Trump had turned down Wolff’s request to report from the White House multiple times, why would Gorka have been instructed to talk with Wolff — and why would Wolff have been allowed to hang out in former White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus’ office?

The internet erupted in mockery at Gorka unwittingly confirming Wolff’s own account of how he got access to the White House, while simultaneously kneecapping his former boss.






















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https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/you-had-one-job-internet-roasts-ex-trump-advisers-hilariously-botched-attempt-to-discredit-wolff/
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'You had one job': Internet roasts ex-Trump adviser's hilariously botched attempt to discredit Wolff (Original Post) DonViejo Jan 2018 OP
Cue Trump, "Gorka has lost his mind. Sad!" marylandblue Jan 2018 #1
"Not a Michael in sight" More_Cowbell Jan 2018 #2
"They're ALL Fredo." Gidney N Cloyd Jan 2018 #6
oh God.... Gorka is an odious, pompous fool... Raster Jan 2018 #3
"oleaginous" Ooh look at the big brain on the Nazi underpants Jan 2018 #4
So many geniuses NastyRiffraff Jan 2018 #5
Nah.. they're all stable geniuses.. Cha Jan 2018 #8
Don't miss this about Gorka gratuitous Jan 2018 #7

Raster

(20,996 posts)
3. oh God.... Gorka is an odious, pompous fool...
Mon Jan 8, 2018, 05:14 PM
Jan 2018

...I cannot stand listening to him and his dripping with arrogance accent.

On edit, my favorite of the tweets:

I know many have too soon declared the death of irony. But Sebastian Gorka just called *somebody else* a “partisan self-promoter with credibility issues.” So it’s dead now, right?

— Jonathan Marks (@marksjo1) January 8, 2018

underpants

(182,279 posts)
4. "oleaginous" Ooh look at the big brain on the Nazi
Mon Jan 8, 2018, 05:36 PM
Jan 2018

Gorka must have spent all his brainpower on that instead of the text of the article.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
7. Don't miss this about Gorka
Mon Jan 8, 2018, 05:50 PM
Jan 2018

In inadvertently corroborating Wolff, the little Nazi inadvertently discloses that he himself wasn't big shot enough for Wolff to schmooze with.

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