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Vitezi Rend?
Durbin: Even outside White House Gorka should be investigated for neo-Nazi ties
Senate Minority Whip Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) is stepping up his call for an investigation into President Trump's former special assistant Sebastian Gorka's alleged ties to a neo-Nazis.
"Sebastian Gorka should never have been an advisor to POTUS. He should still be investigated for concealing neo-nazi ties," Durbin said in a tweet on Saturday, just one day after Gorka left his White House post.
Gorka's departure from the White House was announced late Friday.
Durbin, along with Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) penned a letter to the Justice Department and Department of Homeland Security on Monday, prior to Gorka's resignation, pressing the government to investigate Gorka's alleged ties to a group the U.S. State Department has said "was under the direction of the Nazi Government of Germany."
Gorka came under fire after he was seen wearing a medal from the Hungarian order Vitezi Rend, which was founded by an ally of Adolf Hitler.
He has claimed that the medal was awarded to his father for fighting communism in Hungary.
“As a senior counterterrorism advisor, Mr. Gorka is in a position of great importance and public trust. The American people are entitled to know if a senior White House official is under criminal investigation,” the three senators wrote in the letter.
The senators also acknowledged Gorka's reported failure to obtain a security clearance.
Gorka has a background in counterterrorism, however his role in the White House was never detailed in public.
“We are also concerned that, according to numerous media reports, Mr. Gorka has been unable to obtain a security clearance, which could be a result of an ongoing criminal investigation. It is unclear how Mr. Gorka can effectively advise the president on counterterrorism and other national security matters without a security clearance," the letter continued.
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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Three people, including one of Gorka's former political allies, said he was a well-known member of Vitezi Rend back in Hungary, a charge he strongly denies.
Gorka's decision to wear the medal — which he said was awarded to his Hungarian-born father — has provoked outrage among Jewish groups.
While in Budapest, NBC News also spoke with Andras Heisler, the Hungarian vice-president of the New York-based World Jewish Congress, who said that wearing the medal "isn't a good message for a democratic society."
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Vitezi Rend was founded in 1920 by Hungarian ruler Miklos Horthy to award medals to Hungarian veterans of World War I. But the group's history became murky after the country allied with Nazi Germany in 1938.
Heisler told NBC News that members of the organization were likely complicit in the murder of some of the hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews toward the end of World War II.
During the war, the State Department listed Vitezi Rend among a group of "organizations under the direction of the Nazi government of Germany." And Horthy, its founder, once said that "I have always been an anti-Semite throughout my life,"
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Last month, three Vitezi Rend officials told American-Jewish newspaper The Forward that Sebastian Gorka was one of their order.
The reports about Gorka prompted the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect, an American civil-rights group, to call for Sebastian Gorka's resignation, or at least an investigation into his alleged links with the far-right.
"How many ducks in the Trump White House must walk, talk and quack Anti-Semitically before our country wakes up and sees the greater problem?"
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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