The War for America's Soul

Sebastian Gorka

• Publisher: Regnery
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9781621579403
• eBook ISBN: 9781621579632
• Topic: Politik & Internationale Beziehungen
• Subtopic: Konservatismus & Liberalismus

"Take it from someone who has been on the inside, who understands the fight we are currently in, and who knows what must be done to save our country. Dr. Sebastian Gorka's latest book, The War for America's Soul, leverages the former White House strategist's expertise, driven by his determination to preserve what made America great in the first place." — MARK LEVIN Our country is at war with itself. On one side are American patriots, dedicated to freedom under the Constitution; on the other side are leftists campaigning not just to win elections, but to radically transform the nation. In this political war for the soul of our country, America's patriots need a strategist with a blueprint for victory. Luckily, we have such a man in Dr. Sebastian Gorka—a former strategist for President Trump and now a nationally syndicated radio host and a fearless culture warrior. In his essential new book, The War for America's Soul, Dr. Gorka shows how America's elite—in both parties—betrayed our heartland, sabotaged the American dream, and accepted national decline as inevitable. It took a candidate with remarkable vision, dauntless courage, and unbreakable determination to change the narrative. That man was Donald Trump. A candidate who owed no favors to special interests, Trump articulated a new American nationalism that has been an extraordinary force for economic and political renewal.

CHAPTER ONEOBAMAGATE: THE ATTEMPTED COUP AGAINST DONALD J. TRUMP

Coup d’état is not a phrase to be used lightly.

Unless you are an uber-iconoclastic strategic thinker and author like Ed Luttwak who built his career, in part, by authoring the book, Coup d’État: A Practical Handbook, this is not a topic to joke about or to trifle with, as it conjures images of bloody takeovers by juntas in banana republics, or of tanks barricading parliament buildings in Moscow in the 1990s.

It is not a word that we associate with our Republic, where the Constitution and the rule of law are paramount. But a coup d’état is exactly what the Democrat party and the Obama administration attempted against Donald J. Trump both during his candidacy and after he took office as president.

At first, few took seriously Donald Trump’s announcement that he was running for president. The media and political elite were certain that the candidacy of the blond billionaire from New York—the star of his own reality TV show with the catchphrase “You’re fired!”—was absurd; it was written off by many as a publicity stunt. The establishment’s disdain for Donald Trump was captured perfectly in one moment on that egregiously offensive show Real Time with Bill Maher. In June 2015, Maher asked Ann Coulter which of the Republican candidates was the most likely to win. When she answered: “Donald Trump!” the panel (Maher, liberal Joy Reid, Never-Trumper Matt Lewis, and Democratic politician Luis Gutiérrez) guffawed, and the audience burst out laughing like trained circus animals.¹ But then, slowly but surely, candidate Trump whittled away at the other sixteen establishment GOP candidates to become the Republican nominee. This was, to the establishment, an inconceivable turn of events. Trump was not a part of the political class. He wasn’t beholden to special interests. He had no ties to the oil industry, tobacco, or Big Pharma. And, what was worse, he was a “rube.” In a choice between vichyssoise and a Big Mac, he’d go for the burger. In a choice between watching Charlie Rose or Sean Hannity, Trump watched the FOX News host. In a choice between joining the bipartisan consensus of the Washington swamp or putting America first, well there was no question. Therefore, this man had to be stopped.

As I write this book, a new attorney general has been unleashed upon the conspirators behind what I have called Obamagate. For two years, the Department of Justice was run by the well-meaning, but out of his depth Jeff Sessions, former United States senator from Alabama. Sessions allowed the Obama Era Deep-State holdovers to convince him to recuse himself from overseeing the Russia “collusion” investigation when there was no need for him to do so.² In William Barr, his successor, we finally have someone at the helm who knows what he is doing, has a spine made of rebar, and who has made it his mission to root out corruption.

Already, in his multiple appearances before Congress and in a handful of lengthier media interviews, Attorney General Barr has made it clear that he is on the warpath, that he is not satisfied with the contradictory answers he has received to questions he has asked about surveillance operations undertaken by the Obama Era FBI, Department of Justice, CIA, and other elements of the American intelligence and law enforcement establishment.³ And to that end, in addition to ongoing inspector general investigations, he has tasked the U.S. attorney for Connecticut, John Durham, to look into just how the “Russia Collusion” investigation began and with what predication.⁴ Durham is a man who has dedicated a large part of his life to investigating and prosecuting bent cops.⁵

As a result, we are only at the beginning of this journey of discovery, to return our Republic to a nation defined by the rule of law. On my national radio show, AMERICA First, I have repeatedly asked those at the forefront of uncovering the truth about this scandal—the biggest political scandal in American history—just how much they think we know so far. Their answers concur at just 10–15 percent of all the corruption and criminality involved. Nevertheless, given the massive disinformation campaign associated with this series of crimes, the support provided by the “Fake News” “mainstream” media, and the sheer complexity and breadth of this conspiracy, I believe it to be essential for you to know as much as possible right now.

In the next few pages, I have collected as much of the truth that we now know. In this I am indebted, as we all should be as Americans, to the unstinting work of my friends and colleagues Joe DiGenova, Victoria Toensing, Sara Carter, Andy McCarthy, John Solomon, Catherine Herridge, Gregg Jarrett, Lee Smith, and especially Dan Bongino. His book Spygate: The Attempted Sabotage of Donald J. Trump must be read by all patriots. Additionally, the speech he gave to the 2018 David Horowitz Freedom Center Restoration Weekend is the best early summary of what we know about the conspiracy, and I am indebted in this chapter to his having given it and to his clarity when doing so.⁶

First, we must understand the context of the scandal. Without the context it is nigh impossible for a law-abiding citizen who has never seen the Clinton Crime Cartel or Team Obama operate up close to believe what these political actors and their bureaucratic agents did to our nation. We need to remind ourselves what they had already done—and were capable of—before they decided that Donald Trump was a threat and that he and anyone associated with him had to be politically and judicially neutralized.

The Fake News Industrial Complex would have you believe that the Obama years were “scandal free” and that his was the most transparent and accountable White House in the history of our country. In fact, it was the most scandal-ridden eight years of any modern presidential administration. During his tenure, Obama saw fit to use the incredible powers of the IRS to harass and target conservative Tea Party organizations.⁷ (Richard Nixon had considered using the IRS to target his opponents but never actually implemented this tactic.⁸ Unlike Obama.) Obama was likewise fine with using the National Park Service as a political weapon during a government shutdown, having park rangers barricade our capital’s memorials so as to inconvenience our World War II veterans who had come to Washington to pay respects to their fallen comrades.⁹

Then there was the use of the Espionage Act to harass conservative journalists—a violation of freedom of the press that the mainstream media didn’t care to report much about because they were too busy promoting the Obama administration’s press releases. To this day we do not know the full story of just how pervasively journalists whom Obama saw as his enemies—including FOX News’s James Rosen and CBS’s Sheryl Atkisson—were illegally spied upon because their work was “too truthful” when it came to the crimes of the Obama White House. What we do know is that Rosen and even his elderly parents were surveilled by the federal government absent any predicate of a real crime¹⁰ and that Atkisson’s private communications and her personal computers were penetrated by individuals clearly acting in the interests of the Obama administration.¹¹ Add to that the fact that during the eight years of the Obama administration, more journalists and their sources were prosecuted and imprisoned under the Espionage Act of 1917 than by all previous presidents combined,¹² and we begin to understand the attitude to rule of law, transparency, and accountability that the former constitutional law “professor” Barack Obama had.

It was Obama’s secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, who lied about the true cause of the deadly attack on our consulate in Benghazi that led to the gruesome torture and murder of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other brave Americans.¹³ In order to deflect the blame for the gruesome terror attack in the run-up to his reelection, Obama’s team blamed a sophomoric YouTube video about Mohammed for inciting the murders, hiding from public sight the truth that it was al Qaeda that had staged the assault on the anniversary of September 11th and that Ambassador Stevens had repeatedly sent signals to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that matters were escalating and that he and his people needed more security. He was ignored and sacrificed to the jihadists which the Clinton State Department and Obama White House wanted to pretend were not a serious threat.¹⁴

Then there was the president’s unconstitutional approach to the Fourth Amendment and due process. In an attempt to make the otherwise less than manly Obama look “tough” and decisive, the White House established something called the “Threat Disposition Matrix” on a secure tablet for the 44th president. This device would hold a classified list of top, high value targets—terrorists from around the world connected to groups like al Qaeda or ISIS, with their locations when known. This is what Obama used to choose whom we would kill next via a drone strike or other action.¹⁵

This may seem the opposite of scandalous, since killing terrorists is a good thing, correct? Yes, it is. But first there is the absurdity of having the president of the United States make tactical decisions about which terrorist should be killed today. That is not what a president does. In World War II, Presidents Roosevelt and Truman would never have toyed with lists of which Third Reich tank commander or fighter pilot to kill next just to look “tough.” But the real scandal is that this list included U.S. citizens, some of whom were chosen by Obama for assassination and then actually killed, with zero due process, in flagrant contravention of an American citizen’s constitutional rights before the law.¹⁶ One day it’s Americans targeted by hell-fire missiles on foreign soil, what if next it’s Americans targeted here in America, similarly without access to justice?

This was Obama’s White House. From the targeting of American patriots at home via the IRS, to missile strikes killing Americans abroad without due process before the law, the Obama administration had no qualms—none—with using the incredible might of the federal government against those it did not like, or wanted to eliminate. That is how we arrive at the plot to subvert candidate Trump’s campaign through the use of the Department of Justice (DOJ), FBI, CIA, and National Security Agency (NSA), for political purposes.

Let us start with the NSA. After the 9/11 attacks of 2001, the powers and capacities of the NSA grew exponentially, and this continued under the Obama administration, to the point that in 2011 the nation’s premier electronic surveillance agency had to build a new data storage facility in the middle of the desert in Utah. The Obama administration spent $1.5 billion of taxpayer funds for a site that stretches over 1.5 million square feet to house up to twelve exabytes of surveilled data.¹⁷ To understand just how gargantuan a capability that represents, U. C. Berkeley scientists estimate that five exabytes is equivalent to the amount of words all human beings have ever spoken, in all languages, since we started to use language.¹⁸ The NSA can store more than twice that amount of classified information at just its Utah facility, and—as far as we know at the moment—this is where the crimes against Donald Trump begin.

Government officials with the requisite clearances may “query” the NSA database. Since the NSA can snoop on telephone conversations, texts, emails, radio communications, and basically any form of electronic information transmittal around the world, this allows them to “touch” anyone anywhere who has moved beyond stone tablets, papyrus scrolls, or old-school snail mail for communication and record-keeping. This is a level of power that spymasters of yore such as Cardinal Richelieu, or even Ian Fleming’s fictional “M,” could barely imagine.

Since the advent of the Internet has made communications truly global and practically instantaneous, the NSA can be used to target any bad guy on the web, but in doing so, the vaunted “six steps of separation” mean that one justified request for an intercept on a high value target will ensnare totally innocent people in the net of “meta-data” which the NSA has at its disposal.¹⁹ For example, the CIA or the Drug Enforcement Administration may make a request for all the available communications of a specific jihadi terrorist or a businessman running a front company for a drug cartel, and the NSA will be able to retrieve said target’s emails, intercept his phone-calls, and even penetrate his hard drives should his personal computers have a connection to the Internet.²⁰ And of course, those communications will include thousands upon thousands of interactions with totally innocent people.²¹ Terrorists and drug-runners make calls to the dentist too when they need a root-canal. They hire cars via email from reputable rental companies. They send birthday greetings to grandma. The NSA will pick up all of these communications as well, including totally innocent exchanges with American citizens who have done nothing wrong. That’s why they need a twelve exabyte storage facility in Utah.

When a government official makes a justifiable request to surveil a target individual, any intercepted communication that involves an American citizen who is not otherwise under investigation—who is not being surveilled as an individual of primary interest because he committed a crime or because there is reason to suspect that he will—must be handled in such a way that that individual’s identity is “masked” or redacted within the intercepted material, so as to protect that U.S. citizen’s constitutional rights.²² There is, however, an exception.

If a senior government official is curious as to why this American’s name can be connected to a person deemed a threat to national security, they can request that the person’s name be revealed. This is called “unmasking” and should be invoked rarely and only if there is some valid national security justification for injuring that citizen’s Fourth Amendment rights. Having spoken to senior political appointees and int...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Foreword
• Prologue: What the Left Has Wrought
• Chapter One: Obamagate: The Attempted Coup Against Donald J. Trump
• Chapter Two: The Political Elite’s Bipartisan Betrayal of America
• Chapter Three: The Plotters—and Their Plan—To Destroy America
• Chapter Four: Can President Trump Stop the Radical Left?
• Chapter Five: How You Can Win the War for America’s Soul
• Bonus Chapter Six: Straight Answers to Popular Questions
• Bonus Chapter Seven: An Exclusive Interview with President Donald Trump
• Appendix One: Direct from President Trump: Debate Prep to Win the Big Argument
• Appendix Two: We Can Win Because the Truth Is on Our Side
• Appendix Three: Hillary Clinton, Saul Alinksy, and the Continuing Relevance of Rules for Radicals
• About the Author
• Notes
• Index
• Copyright