Controversial White House adviser Sebastian Gorka is stepping down from his role in the Trump administration to take an unspecified position in “the war of ideas,” said TheHill.com on Sunday. The announcement comes after Gorka’s Ph.D. was revealed to be fraudulently awarded and his connections to a Hungarian neo-Nazi group were exposed the Jewish Daily Forward.…
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Following reports that Sebastian Gorka, a top adviser to President Trump, will be removed from his position in the White House and reassigned to a different post in the administration, Stosh Cotler, CEO of Bend the Arc Jewish Action, released the following statement:
“The further away Sebastian Gorka is from our nation’s levers of power, the better. His reported ties to Nazi-aligned organizations in Europe, his virulent anti-Muslim views and his lack of national security qualifications and experience all completely disqualify him from a seat in the White House. If it’s true that he is being removed from his current position, that is a victory for all of us fighting for a White House free of racist, radical, far-right, antisemitic and white nationalist influence.
“But this is just a partial victory, and one that unfortunately demonstrates President Trump’s deep indebtedness to the white nationalist movement that powered his campaign. Any normal president, when the truth about Gorka was exposed, would not have relocated him — they would have removed him completely from the administration. But Trump is not a normal president, and is doing just what he did with Gorka’s ideological ally, Steve Bannon, who was demoted from the National Security Council but not removed from the White House. Trump is trying to shift our focus off these men, while still holding them close. We see what he’s doing and we do not accept it.
“President Trump must remove Gorka, along with all other white nationalist extremists such as Bannon, from government service entirely , and he must reject the policies and rhetoric of the white nationalist movement. We will continue to call out and oppose the anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant, anti-American policies of the Trump administration and all those who champion them.”