El Presidente Trumpo has decided to put some space between the administration and Sebastian Gorka, the Breitbart Muslim critic dude.
The Washington Examiner got the scoop:
Sebastian Gorka, deputy assistant to President Trump, will soon accept a position outside the White House, two sources told the Washington Examiner on Sunday.
Gorka’s new role will deal with the “war of ideas” involved in countering radical Islamic extremism, a senior administration official said, and will entail an appointment to a federal agency.
Gorka has served for months on the Strategic Initiatives Group, an internal organization within the White House, and as a national security adviser. His exit from the White House comes amid increased speculation that a reported lack of a security clearance prevented him from fully performing in his job.
There had been rumors about his before, which we posted here, because of ties that liberals were finding between him and far-right nationalist groups in Hungary, where he’s from.
They’re already making excuses for the exit, showing their cards on what the narrative will be:
…a source told the Washington Examiner that Gorka’s role in SIG was always meant to be temporary, and suggested he had been placed there while administration officials created a terrorism-related position for him elsewhere in the government. An official said Gorka has been in a “holding pattern” while he waited for the position, which will not be at the State Department, to be established.
Here’s Buzzfeed on the Hungarian connection to Gorka – he denied it.
When BuzzFeed News reached Gorka by phone on Thursday, he stonewalled when asked about the report. “Send a request to White House press,” Gorka told BuzzFeed News. Captain Gyula Soltész, a current leader in the Historical Vitézi Rend in Hungary, later told BuzzFeed News that Gorka is a current member.
Soltész refused to discuss the initiation process with BuzzFeed News or make public the oath that all members must take.
Later Thursday, in an interview with Tablet magazine, Gorka was quoted, “I have never been a member of the Vitez Rend. I have never taken an oath of loyalty to the Vitez Rend.”
The US State Department says the Vitézi Rend was “under the direction of the Nazi Government of Germany.” But Gorka reportedly belongs to a “reconstitution of the original group on the State Department list, which was banned in Hungary until the fall of Communism in 1989,” according to The Forward.
So if there’s nothing there, then why is he stepping down? Is Trump just caving to liberal pressure like a snowflake? The only other option is that he DOES have extremist ties…
Either way, it won’t be a good look for Trump to lose yet another advisor.
UPDATE:
Three sources have told me that HR McMaster can't stand Sebastian Gorka and has been trying to push him out.
— Yashar (@yashar) April 9, 2017
UPDATE TWO!!
Gorka wasn’t fired, and the Daily Beast says Steve Bannon intervened to save him!!