The Breitbart news website got yet another black eye today as it was revealed that one of their editors had been paid off by the Donald Trump campaign for “consulting.”
This news that a Breitbart editor, no matter how tenuous his ‘title’ is, was paid by Trump camp is big imohttps://t.co/Ucg3lxzMP0
— Hadas Gold (@Hadas_Gold) April 19, 2016
Here’s Politico on the news:
A Breitbart national security editor, Dr. Sebastian Gorka, was paid by Donald Trump’s campaign for policy consulting last year.
According to Federal Election Commission filings, Gorka was paid $8,000 in October. The payment was first reported by BuzzFeed.
Two sources told POLITICO that while Gorka may technically hold the position of “national security editor,” (he was introduced as such by Breitbart chairman Stephen Bannon on his radio show as recently as Monday,) he hasn’t actually worked at the site in a traditional editor’s role since 2014. Gorka hasn’t written for the site since December.
The Breitbart.com site has basically become a Trump campaign propaganda source with brazen and often plainly stupid bias. It’s no surprise that an editor might be on the Trump payroll, but that’s just on the surface.
Who knows what other shenanigans are going on there.