Did Gorka Really Wear A Medal Linked To Nazi Ally To Trump Inaugural Ball?

[DonViejo]

By ALLEGRA KIRKLAND Published FEBRUARY 13, 2017, 4:29 PM EDT

During an interview with Fox News broadcast from one of President Trump's inaugural balls, soon-to-be White House aide Sebastian Gorka wore a medal that some Hungarian news outlets and scholars identified with Miklós Horthy, the anti-Semitic World War II-era leader whose regime witnessed the murder of some 600,000 Hungarian Jews.

Still days away from officially joining the Trump administration, Gorka, a former Breitbart News editor and self-proclaimed counterterrorism expert known for his hardline views on Islam, effused to Sean Hannity about the the death of “political correctness” in the Trump era. As the interview unfolded, Fox played clips of the President and First Lady dancing at the ball earlier in the evening.

Gorka’s choice of dress, a black braided jacket known as a "bocskai" adorned with two medals, wouldn't necessarily catch the eye of an American viewer. But some Hungarians who came across the interview interpreted the getup as a nod to the knightly order of merit Horthy founded in 1920, the Order of Vitéz. Right-wing Hungarian media in particular fixated on what it saw as Gorka's callback to a resurgent native icon of the far-right.

Hungarian scholars who spoke to TPM did not unanimously agree that the medal he wore on inauguration night could definitively be identified with Horthy’s Order of Vitéz. But they concurred that Gorka's regalia is popular today among Hungary's nationalist conservatives.

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[Kimchijeon]

1. Kind of expected.... I mean consider the source

an Anti-Semitic scumbag from Brietbart might have worn something Nazi-related? Noooo, color me shocked. Say it ain't so! lol

[littlemissmartypants]

2. We should not be

Caught underestimating the threat this man poses by his presence in the administration, regardless of his so called fashion choices.

Sebastian Lukacs vitez Gorka (Hungarian: Gorka Sebestyén; born 1970) is a national security professional specializing in irregular warfare, including counterinsurgency and counterterrorism.

From Wikipedia.

[Angry Dragon]

3. Perhaps he was just channeling his inner Hitler

[ck4829]

4. What was his answer to question 13b of the N-400?

You have to list stuff like this, he might be a perjurer if he said no and that really was the Order of Vitez.

[Snarkoleptic]

5. He should fit in nicely with the regime,as he's a liar and a fraud.

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/trump-staffer-has-lied-for-years-about-his-role-as-expert-witness-in-boston-marathon-bombing-trial/

(peeResident) Trump’s new Deputy Assistant, Sebastian Gorka is just another administration member living in a world of “alternative facts.” Gorka, who is both a contributor for Breitbart as well as a “self-proclaimed expert” on so-called “radical Islam” has maintained for years that he was an “expert witness” in the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the accused Boston Marathon bomber.

Fusion reports that based on the account of an official in the office of the U.S. Attorney in Massachusetts, “Gorka never testified at the trial and prosecutors didn’t rely on his expertise in preparing or presenting their case.”

Gorka’s personal website, The Gorka Briefing, which has since been taken offline, used to have a section dedicated to his role as an “expert witness” in the Tsarnaev trial. Based on an archive of his website, Gorka claimed to be an expert witness in the case, for instance in an “Analysis of the Tsarnaev Verdict,” in which he claimed to be an expert in a XM/Sirius Patriot interview.