Donald Trump’s former aid Sebastian Gorka gave short shrift to the BBC’s political editor this week, eventually asking him, “Do you not speak English?” In an increasingly terse exchange during the BBC’s flagship early morning current affairs Today Programme on radio, Gorka accused the BBC’s Chris Mason of “putting words in his mouth” and not listening to what he had said.
Gorka, who worked for Donald Trump in the White House between January and August of 2017, was defending his former boss following charges against Trump of attempting to overturn the 2020 US election.
After Mason suggested that “no one should be above the law”, Gorka grew more agitated. “Why are you putting words in my mouth?
I’m talking about the absolute opposite. Do you not speak English? I’m talking about equality before the law. Did you not listen to what I said?
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