Sebastian Gorka is out at the White House, a Trump administration official confirmed on Friday night. The former Breitbart staffer and Steve Bannon ally served as a deputy assistant to President Donald Trump. His departure comes one week after Bannon left the administration to return to Breitbart, and follows a spate of firings and resignations at the White House.
The Trump administration has been rocked by a series of high-profile exits — including Sean Spicer as press secretary and James Comey as FBI director — since the president took office in January.
Here are the top-level people who’ve either been fired or resigned from the Trump administration:
Sebastian Gorka
A White House official confirmed Sebastian Gorka’s departure from the Trump administration Friday night.
The former Breitbart staffer and Steve Bannon ally served as a deputy assistant to President Donald Trump.
His departure comes one week after Bannon left the administration to return to Breitbart. In his departing letter, first published on a pro-Trump website, Gorka told Trump he could better serve the president’s “America First” agenda from the outside.
Gorka was aligned with a once-ascendant nationalist arm of the Trump administration, occupied most prominently by Bannon and senior policy adviser Stephen Miller. Bannon’s departure was seen as a significant blow to other nationalist, far-right figures in the White House and Gorka implied as much in his letter, saying it was clear to him that “forces that do not support the MAGA promise are – for now – ascendant within the White House.”
Steve Bannon
White House officials confirmed that Trump had dismissed Steve Bannon, his chief strategist, on Friday after reports of clashes between Bannon and other members of the White House reached a fever pitch in recent days.
Bannon, who was instrumental in focusing the message of Trump’s 2016 campaign, was considered the main conduit between Trump and his base of far-right voters. Bannon submitted his resignation to Trump earlier in August, The New York Times reports.
Matt Drudge, the conservative blogger, said Bannon might return to his former job as executive chairman of Breitbart News.
Anthony Scaramucci
Anthony Scaramucci was hired as the White House communications director and then dismissed in less than two weeks. The decision came at the urging of John Kelly, the new White House chief of staff, according to a Times report.
Scaramucci most notably made headlines for his interview with The New Yorker in which he unleashed an expletive-filled tirade against members of the Trump administration.
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