SENATORS QUESTION WHETHER DEPLORABLE TRUMP ADVISER GORKA HAS TIES TO NAZI-LINKED GROUP*

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UPDATED | Normally, second-tier White House foreign policy advisers are rarely seen and even more rarely heard. But these are not normal times, and Sebastian Gorka is no normal adviser.

Gorka’s unorthodox views on political Islam were known but little noted outside of military and far-right quarters before Steve Bannon, his former Breitbart News boss and Donald Trump’s top political adviser, invited him to join his Strategic Initiatives Group in the White House. But since jumping into that cauldron he’s come under fierce fire. Critics have attacked his academic credentials and insistence that a “global jihadist movement” is driven principally by passages from the Koran, rather than regional government corruption and repression and sectarian, tribal, political or economic factors.



“Despite casting himself as an expert on radical jihadi ideology, Gorka does not speak Arabic and has spent no time in the Middle East,” Daniel Nexon, a leading international affairs expert at Georgetown University, noted in the latest scathing review of Gorka’s work, in the Friday edition of Foreign Policy.

Now three U.S. senators are asking the departments of Justice and Homeland Security to investigate whether Gorka covered up his membership in a Nazi-linked Hungarian organization on his 2012 application for American citizenship.

“We are deeply concerned by reports that Dr. Gorka concealed the material fact of his membership in the Vitézi Rend, a far-right anti-Semitic Hungarian organization, when he applied for U.S. citizenship,” wrote the three senators, Richard Durbin of Illinois, Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut and Ben Cardin of Maryland. A day earlier, Representative Jerrold Nadler of New York, also a Democrat, had asked President Trump to send Gorka’s immigration papers to the House Judiciary Committee.




http://www.newsweek.com/senators-question-trump-adviser-gorka-ties-nazi-linked-group-570453

*This is some effed up ----. BTW, the title was in caps. I added Deplorable. I didn't feel like rewriting it