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Budapest, Behind Heroes’ Square, 1896

On March 17th, U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and Ben Cardin (D-MD) “called on the Departments of Homeland Security and Justice to investigate whether senior White House counterterrorism advisor Sebastian Gorka falsified his U.S. naturalization application by failing to disclose his membership in a Hungarian neo-Nazi organization.” Gorka used to work as an advisor to Putin ally, Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orban. Orban was the first (only?) European leader to publicly endorse Trump.

Yesterday, March 30th, Larry Cohler-Esses at Forward .com wrote an open letter entitled, “Dear Dr. Gorka: Six Questions Trump’s Counter-Terrorism Aide Won’t Answer“: “on March 22, I sent you a few basic questions about your relationship to the far-right Hungarian group known as the Vitezi Rend.”

As with Steve Bannon, the potential ties between Gorka and Neo-Nazis are not as strange as they…