Trump aide Sebastion Gorka's ties to Nazi organization

[woolfe9998]

So Trump's foreign policy "expert" Sebastion Gorka, whose foreign policy cred and experience has been widely panned, is apparently an active, card carrying member of a Hungarian pro-Nazi organization called Vitézi Rend. This according to leaders in the group itself. Also, it looks like Gorka failed to disclose this fact when he immigrated to the US. I guess Trump may be right about the inadequacy of our vetting since we did, after all, allow this a-hole into the country.

Vitezi Rend was founded in the 1920's by Hungarian head of state Miklos Horthy. Horthy was an avowed nationalist and admitted anti-Semite who later assisted the Nazis in rounding up Hungarian Jews and deporting them to Auschwitz in the summer of 1944. The Vitezi Rend group he founded was a far right, anti-Semitic group. Horthy gave this group property taken from Jews who were deported to Auschwitz. After the war, the group was disbanded under Soviet influence. But after the USSR collapsed in 1989, the group was immediately re-formed. It reveres Horthy as its founder and continues the exact same ultra-right wing nationalist and racist stances as the original organization. Several of its members are publicly known anti-semites.

Read here:

http://forward.com/news/national/36...aims-top-trump-aide-sebastian-gorka-as-sworn/

As of today, Jewish groups are calling for Trump to terminate Gorka.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...ignation/ar-BByd09F?li=AA5a8k&ocid=spartandhp

So far there is no comment from either Gorka or the White House.

These are the people Trump has chosen to surround himself with. I have to wonder how many terminations are going to become necessary as things like this are uncovered.

 

[Grooveriding]

The best people. More and more of these floaters keep rising to the top of the bowl.

 

[HTFOff]

ZOMG NAZIS

WAKE UP AMERIKKKA!!121!!!21

 

[brycejones]

Lies fake news! Part of the Zionist conspiracy to spread communism and Islam.

 

[IronWing]

ZOMG NAZIS

WAKE UP AMERIKKKA!!121!!!21

Too late. Reagan shut down the federal office responsible for tracking Nazis.

 

[sandorski]

Sad.

 

[alien42]

can't say i'm surprised, Gorka makes my skin crawl like Miller and Bannon do.

 

[NostaSeronx]

I didn't see that.

 

[First]

NOBODY SAW THIS COMING

 

[kage69]

Gorka's presence still surprises me.

I bet Jared Kushner thinks Gorka's just swell. That he works for the guy who competes with him and Ivanka for Dump's ear makes me think they'll try to keep him scarce, or maybe give him his walking papers altogether.

 

[woolfe9998]

A little nuance which I left out of my OP for brevity but which I should mention in fairness. Vitézi Rend is certainly far right, nationalist, racist and anti-Semitic, then and now. However, it's relationship to Nazi Germany is more complex than the label "pro-Nazi" suggests. Horthy himself was purportedly suspicious of Hitler and the Nazis as destabilizing to Europe. He likely allied himself with Hitler to prevent Hungary from being conquered by Germany. Although Horthy did actively assist the Nazis in deporting Jews in June-July, 1944, he then evidently thought better of it and suddenly refused to cooperate. The reason was that Horthy wanted to save his own skin, as the Red Army was at that time only months away from Budapest and he assumed that being complicit in Nazi war crimes might not be so good for his health. So the Nazis deposed Horthy that summer and installed a puppet, who then resumed the deportations. However, Horthy's stalling it out of self-interest may have ironically saved some Hungarian Jews as the Nazis were never able to finish the task before the Soviets arrived, and Horthy had delayed the operation by about a month.

I don't think any of this really changes the implications of Gorka's membership in the organization, which he now purportedly denies. But I thought I'd include all that for full disclosure.

 

[agent00f]

ZOMG NAZIS

WAKE UP AMERIKKKA!!121!!!21

Conservatives certainly do love all things klan. That's why they recruited all the dixiecrats post civil rights and vote for the klan's choice for president nearly without fail.

Of course since they're complete degenerates they'll never take any personal responsibility for those acts as you aptly demonstrate.

 

[thraashman]

A Trump aide that's a member of a neo Nazi organization? I'm shocked, shocked I tell ya! ... Ok not that shocked.