Sebastian Gorka has resigned from Trump’s White House. I did Nazi that coming. No wait, I predicted it last week.
Sebastian Gorka, the alleged Nazi and confirmed white supremacist who held an ill-defined but influential position in Donald Trump’s White House, has officially resigned his job tonight according to multiple sources. This has set off a round of “I did Nazi that coming” jokes on social media. But here is the part where I arrogantly point out that I called this, just as I accurately predicted the timing of the departures of Anthony Scaramucci, Steve Bannon and Reince Priebus.
The news about Gorka’s resignation was first reported this evening by The Federalist (link) and has since been reported elsewhere. I wrote last week, on the day Steve Bannon departed, that “Sebastian Gorka will be gone in three weeks” (link). So now some Palmer Report readers are asking who I think is the next to go. And that gets a little tricky, but I’ll give it a shot.
I had an easy time accurately predicting Bannon’s exit because three of his top allies on the National Security Council had just been fired, and it was clear he was being targeted. And of course once Bannon was gone, there was no one left to protect Gorka, so that was a relatively easy call. It was also fairly easy to see from day one that Scaramucci sought the kind of spotlight-hogging that Trump wasn’t going to tolerate for more than a brief time. And the day Scaramucci was hired, I knew Priebus was on short time. But the next big departure from Donald Trump’s White House may be a bit more murky – though there are three people to keep an eye on.
The first is Sebastian Gorka’s wife Katharine Gorka, who also works in Trump’s White House. Will she resign in solidarity with her husband, or is this one of these scenarios where he decides to stay on the job until he finds his next source of income? If they do both quit, they could always get their health insurance through Obamacare, since Trump failed to kill it. Stephen Miller is the last of the “big three” white supremacists remaining in the White House, with Bannon and Gorka gone. But Miller seems to be allied with Jared Kushner, who could protect him.
And as I wrote last week, Trump will eventually get tired of new White House Chief of Staff General John Kelly taking away all of his favorite toys. It’s a matter of time before Trump turns against Kelly. But that could be weeks or months from now. That is, of course, if Trump himself even makes it that long.
