A controversial figure from the Trump administration will be signing books at Barnes & Noble in The Villages later this month.
Sebastian Lukacs Gorka, who served about seven months last year as a deputy assistant to President Trump, will be at the popular Lake Sumter Landing bookstore on Thursday, Oct. 18 to sign copies of his new book titled “Why We Fight: Defeating America’s Enemies – With No Apologies.” The British-born Hungarian-American military and intelligence analyst, who now serves as a Fox News contributor, is scheduled to arrive at the store at 2 p.m.
During his time in the White House, Gorka was known as a highly visible defender of the Trump administration. He spoke out more than once in favor of the controversial travel ban that was blocked by federal courts and insisted that constant media reports of issues and turmoil inside the Trump White House were largely false.
In February 2017, Gorka, a naturalized American citizen, staunchly defended Trump after a news conference where he blasted the mainstream media. He labeled Trump’s performance a success and tweeted: “What we saw today was the old Donald Trump from the campaign trail and it was fabulous.”
Gorka also is a former editor for the far-right media outlet Breibart and is known to be a close friend of former Trump official and Breibart chairman Steve Bannon, whom he worked alongside in the White House.
During is time in the Trump administration, Gorka also handled several television and radio interviews as a representative of the Strategic Initiatives Group, an organization loosely considered to be a think tank inside the White House that was established by Bannon and Trump’s son-in-law/adviser, Jared Kushner.
Gorka, who also has claimed to have had a role as an expert in the Boston bombing trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was in the news in January 2016 when he was arrested for having a gun in his carry-on bag at Washington National Airport. Gorka said he didn’t realize the 9mm pistol was in the bag and turned the weapon over to law enforcement officials. He was detained and eventually allowed to board his plane, and the charge was dismissed a year later.
Gorka’s White House tenure officially ended on Aug. 25, 2017, one week after Bannon departed. He said he resigned because White House officials were constantly undermining Trump’s “Make America Great Again” platform. White House officials disputed that claim, saying Gorka was no longer employed by the Trump administration and would have no further access to the White House or its grounds.
Gorka is married to Pennsylvania native Katharine Fairfax Cornell, who also has been involved in the Trump administration, first as a member of the transition team for the Department of Homeland Security and then as a policy adviser with that agency.
Gorka also is one in a long time of Fox News personalities or former Trump officials to visit the Lake Sumter Landing Barnes & Noble store. The others include:
- Popular commentator Tucker Carlson signed copies of his book, “Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class Is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution,” at the store this past Saturday afternoon.
- The night before, “Fox and Friends” co-host Steve Doocy and his wife, Kathy, signed copies of their new cookbook, “The Happy Cookbook: A Celebration of the Food That Makes America Smile.” And Steve Doocy appeared in live segments during Friday’s edition of “Fox & Friends” from Lake Sumter Landing outside RJ Gator’s.
- In August, Greg Gutfeld, co-host of “The Five” signed copies of “The Gutfeld Monologues: Classic Rants From The Five.” He brought in a huge crowd of fans, including an 11-year-old girl who lined up seven hours in advance to be the first to greet him.
- In May, Bret Baier, host of “Special Report with Bret Baier” and chief political anchor for Fox signed copies of his new book titled: “Three Days in Moscow: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of the Soviet Empire.” His aunt, Kathy Scarito, lives in the Village of Sunset Pointe.
- In December 2017, Doocy’s “Fox & Friends” co-host Brian Kilmeade was in Florida’s Friendliest Hometown to sign copies of his latest book, “Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans: The Battle That Shaped America’s Destiny.”
- And former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer signed copies in August of his new book, “The Briefing: Politics, the Press, and the President.” Spicer, who served in the administration with Gorka, told the crowd of Villagers at the event that he wrote the book to “set the record straight” about Trump’s campaign and presidential victory.