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Report: Trump Counterterrorism Aide Supported Racist Hungarian Paramilitary Militia

HeadlineApr 04, 2017

The Jewish American newspaper The Forward has reported that Trump’s chief counterterrorism adviser Sebastian Gorka publicly supported an anti-Semitic and racist paramilitary militia in 2007 while he served as a Hungarian politician. The militia, known as the Hungarian Guard, was later banned, after the European Court of Human Rights accused it of racism. The Forward report draws on a 2007 television interview in which Gorka expresses his support for the Hungarian Guard.

A previous investigation by The Forward revealed Gorka took a lifelong oath of loyalty to a Hungarian far-right, Nazi-allied group. Click here to see our interview with Forward editor Larry Cohler-Esses.

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