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Controversial Trump Aide Sebastian Gorka Backed Violent Anti-Semitic Militia

posted on April 5, 2017

The Forward’s Lili Bayer reports, “As a Hungarian political leader in 2007, Sebastian Gorka, President Trump’s chief counter-terrorism adviser, publicly supported a violent racist and anti-Semitic paramilitary militia that was later banned as a threat to minorities by multiple court rulings.” The far-right militia group, the black-vested Hungarian Guard, seeks to defend “ethnic Hungarians,” and exclude minorities. In the 2007 interview, Gorka argued that Hungary needed the militia because of the country’s “fascist police,” and society’s inability to defend itself.

Read at The Forward