Trump’s enemies aren’t scared of his transparent 'slop': analysis

President Donald Trump’s counter-terrorism “czar,” Sebastian Gorka, has predetermined that critics of the administration’s war in Iran are “testicularly challenged.” But the Guardian reports the Trump administration’s Wednesday release of its ‘bizarre’ 16-page “counterterrorism strategy” suggests the administration has no gravitas to back up his words.

Gorka takes “rhetorically charged swings at the president’s enemies, the Biden administration, transgender people and some Islamist groups, while offering little clarity about the threat posed by political violence domestically or abroad or any specific plans to address it,” reports the Guardian, citing international analysts panning the report.

“President Trump has affected a complete revision of how we defeat threats to America predicated on national sovereignty and civilizational confidence and the objective of destroying the groups who would kill Americans or hurt our interests as a free nation,” Gorka’s document claims. “This applies to cartels, Jihadists, left-wing violent extremists, state actors and state sponsors, or any future terror threat.”

But the report made no mention of homegrown right-wing threats, and the Guardian reports political and security analysts slammed the memo as “largely slop”, “utterly unhinged” and an “exercise in gaslighting, partisanship and obsequiousness”.

“It’s the opposite of ‘speak softly and carry a big stick’. It’s more like ‘yell loudly to conceal your small stick’,” Colin Clarke, director of the Soufan Center, a security thinktank, wrote in a series of blistering posts about the document. “And it’s transparent to our allies and adversaries.”

The Guardian reports Gorka “makes no mention of far-right or white supremacist ideology, which has consistently been behind incidents of domestic political violence, but singles out ‘radically pro-transgender’ and ‘anti-American’ ideology for ‘neutralization.’”

The document also falsely claims that immigration has turned Europe into an “incubator of terror threats” and it called on European allies to “halt” its own “willful decline.”

Furthermore, Guardian writer Alice Speri said the document “accuses past administrations of having ‘weaponized’ the intelligence community, pledging to keep the intelligence apparatus from being used as a political tool ‘against innocent Americans’ even as it outlines a plan that appears to do exactly that.”