Trump just named Newsmax host and 2020 election denier Seb Gorka as his pick to be senior director for counterterrorism.

[highplainsdem]

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[brush]

1. God! He's dredging up all the old extreme magats from the last admin.

This is the clown who used wear a blazer with nazi badge on it.

[Bluetus]

17. Another Russian agent in charge of our Intelligence

What could possibly go wrong?

[surfered]

2. Why Gorka? Wasn't Barney Fife available?

[yellow dahlia]

3. The creepy clown car

...just keeps piling them in.

[Cha]

11. The Deadly Creepy Sick Fuck car.

[Ocelot II]

4. How can something be simultaneously hilarious and horrible?

[Blaukraut]

8. Read it and burst out laughing

Told hubby: "You just have to laugh at this point". Hubby shook his head and we went back to watching Arcane.

[peregrinus]

5. Meal Team Six!

[dem4decades]

6. He's like a shitty actor playing an intellectual.

[Celerity]

7. Dr. Sebastian Gorka (James Adomian) interrupts Sandwich Night

[Turbineguy]

9. Terrorists will be happy about that.

[ananda]

20. Seriously.

The Trump cabinet is full of unqualifiied extremists.

I don't presume that they actually intend to do
anything but follow White House orders designed
to let them be completely corrupt, and only
compitent at making everything they touch much
much worse and harmful.

[eppur_se_muova]

10. To be fair, Gorka does know quite a bit about terrorism.

It's like hiring a hacker to design security software -- he knows all the weak points, because he's exploited them himself.

[Takket]

12. i'm just going to leave this here........

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219727843

[tanyev]

13. Newsmax host, 2020 election denier and proud wearer of a Vitezi Rend medal.

The Hungarian group was established as a loyalist group by Admiral Miklos Horthy, who ruled Hungary as a staunch nationalist from 1920 to October 1944.

A self-confessed anti-Semite, Horthy imposed restrictive Jewish laws prior to World War II and collaborated with Hitler. His cooperation with the Nazi regime included the deportation of hundreds of thousands of Jews into Nazi hands.

The group’s mission emphasized not only loyalty to Hungary and nationalist ideas, but also an ideology of racial superiority. One of the original aims of the Vitézi Rend was to “ensure such might to the Hungarian race, which with tremendous power strikes every subversive state and anti-national movement,” Horthy said in a speech to new members in 1921.

The Quisling group to which Gorka, 46, purportedly belongs is a reconstitution of the original group on the State Department list, which was banned in Hungary until the fall of Communism in 1989.

https://forward.com/fast-forward/366234/what-is-vitezi-rend-the-ally-of-the-nazis-that-sebastian-gorka-joined

[Wiz Imp]

14. So now he's appointing actual NAZIs (or in this case re-appointing)

https://forward.com/news/366181/exclusive-nazi-allied-group-claims-top-trump-aide-sebastian-gorka-as-sworn/

EXCLUSIVE: Nazi-Allied Group Claims Top Trump Aide Sebastian Gorka As Sworn Member

Sebastian Gorka, President Trump’s top counter-terrorism adviser, is a formal member of a Hungarian far-right group that is listed by the U.S. State Department as having been “under the direction of the Nazi Government of Germany” during World War II, leaders of the organization have told the Forward.

The elite order, known as the Vitézi Rend, was established as a loyalist group by Admiral Miklos Horthy, who ruled Hungary as a staunch nationalist from 1920 to October 1944. A self-confessed anti-Semite, Horthy imposed restrictive Jewish laws prior to World War II and collaborated with Hitler during the conflict. His cooperation with the Nazi regime included the deportation of hundreds of thousands of Jews into Nazi hands.

Gorka — who Vitézi Rend leaders say took a lifelong oath of loyalty to their group — did not respond to multiple emails sent to his work and personal accounts, asking whether he is a member of the Vitézi Rend and, if so, whether he disclosed this on his immigration application and on his application to be naturalized as a U.S. citizen in 2012. The White House also did not respond to a request for comment.

But Bruce Einhorn, a retired immigration judge who now teaches nationality law at Pepperdine University, said of this, “His silence speaks volumes.”
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[uponit7771]

15. We're in for some hurt, sit in bonds ... Watch your back

[Emrys]

16. Sebastian Gorka was White House aide while a fugitive from Hungarian justice

* Deputy assistant to president was wanted on weapons charges
* Gorka left White House after John Kelly became chief of staff

The White House employed a Hungarian fugitive for seven months, according to an arrest warrant that appears to show that Sebastian Gorka, a former adviser to Donald Trump, was wanted there on weapons charges as of September 2016.

The warrant, first reported by Hungarian online outlet 444 and BuzzFeed News is for “firearm or ammunition abuse”.

Gorka, a former Breitbart writer and Trump campaign surrogate, served as “deputy assistant” to the president during his White House tenure, but the exact nature of his role was vague. Gorka was reportedly forced out last August, by the chief of staff, John Kelly, who had recently assumed the role.

Details on the alleged crime triggered the warrant were scarce. The site 444 noted that it could have resulted from an incident as far back as 2009. Hungarian police did not respond to a request for comment.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/18/sebastian-gorka-hungary-fugitive-white-house-aide

Senators Call For Investigation Of Sebastian Gorka After Reports Surface Of Ties To Neo-Nazi Group
Failure to disclose membership in Hungarian anti-Semitic organization could invalidate Dr. Gorka's U.S. immigration status

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) today called on the Departments of Homeland Security and Justice to investigate whether senior White House counterterrorism advisor Dr. Sebastian Gorka falsified his U.S. naturalization application by failing to disclose his membership in a Hungarian neo-Nazi organization.

According to the Forward, leaders of the Historical Vitézi Rend have identified Dr. Gorka as a member of the organization who took a “lifelong oath of loyalty.”

“We note that this Administration has expressed a special interest in ensuring that those with extremist views do not exploit our immigration laws,” the senators wrote. “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.”

https://www.cardin.senate.gov/press-releases/senators-call-for-investigation-of-sebastian-gorka-after-reports-surface-of-ties-to-neo-nazi-group/

Sebastian Gorka May Be a Far-Right Nativist, but for Sure He’s a Terrible Scholar

Sebastian Gorka, President Donald Trump’s deputy advisor on national security affairs, has emerged as an extremely “visible defender of the administration” on television and radio, especially on counterterrorism policy. Apart from his full-throated defense of policies such as the immigration and travel ban, Gorka likes to boast of his credentials and denigrate his predecessors, as when he told Fox News that “I think the message is deadly clear to our enemies and our adversaries. We don’t have a national security team made out of 28-year-old grad school students who have degrees in fictional writing.” Gorka maintains that the West is locked in an existential ideological struggle with Islam — a view that plays well in the Trump administration.

But Gorka’s own credentials have already come under scrutiny. Before his appointment, he was not a well-known figure among terrorism experts. A report in Politico noted that “several experts … puzzled over the gap between the numerous military academic credentials listed by Gorka — a political science Ph.D. who unfailingly uses the title ‘Dr.’ — and their unfamiliarity with his work and views.” This dovetails with a number of reports that raise doubts about his knowledge of Islam and terrorism, as well as about his ties to Hungarian far-right groups — including one, Vitezi Rend, whose members “‘are presumed to be inadmissible’ to the country under the Immigration and Nationality Act” — and his claim to have access to confidential information within the White House, despite no confirmation that he has security clearance. The biggest concern: Despite casting himself as an expert on radical jihadi ideology, Gorka does not speak Arabic and has spent no time in the Middle East.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/03/17/dr-sebastian-gorka-may-be-a-far-right-nativist-but-for-sure-hes-a-terrible-scholar-trump-radical-islam/

*chef's kiss* He'll fit right in.

[superpatriotman]

18. I wish I could be on tv

So I could get a cabinet position.

[TheKentuckian]

24. I dunno...you seem awfully light on sex crimes, Nazism, devotion to Putin, and kookery.

I mean teevee is very, very appealing but man cannot live on bread alone.

Have you at least participated in a death squad or you a member of the KKK?

John Birch Society?

Jay-zussss...gimmie something to work with pal!

I guess you are going to say you didn't even come for January 6th?!?

[Eko]

19. Not sure if this is true. Could be though.

source seems to just be new york post with such great articles as "Biden admin blowing millions on fighting ‘misinformation’ during COVID-19 is true proof of a government gone haywire". So,,,,

[highplainsdem]

21. Trump announced it.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/22/sebastian-gorka-trump-administration-national-security-00191382

[Solly Mack]

22. Damn

[Ron Green]

23. He's just a pitchman. He'll hawk any product ya got.

I can’t count the different objects, creams, and schemes I’ve heard him flogging on RW radio.

[LudwigPastorius]

25. I'll be honest. I did Nazi this coming.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

26. Gorka is an asshole

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[arthritisR_US]

27. Well the orange shitgibbon does have a thing for breasts so

maybe he’s looking for a play partner?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

28. Gorka is a Nazi

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