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Daily Beast: Trump, Bannon Intervened to Keep Gorka In West Wing
newsmax.com ^ | Sandy Fitzgerald

Posted on 05/07/2017 6:41:24 AM PDT by RoosterRedux

President Donald Trump and his chief strategist, Steve Bannon "personally intervened" to keep national security aide Sebastian Gorka at the White House, after others in the administration were trying to move him to another federal agency, according to senior administration sources.

Last week, sources reported that Gorka was leaving his post as a national security adviser and part of the Strategic Initiatives group to work with a federal agency that examines the 'war of ideas' on countering radical Islamic terrorism. A day later, however, other sources insisted Gorka was not leaving after all.

According to The Daily Beast on Saturday, Trump sees Gorka as being a vital commentator of his administration's anti-terrorism stance. Further, Bannon and Gorka worked together at Breitbart News, where Gorka was Bannon's national security editor.

Gorka was to leave the West Wing, the initial reports claimed because of his difficulty obtaining security clearances and over his involvement with the Vitezi Rend, a Hungarian nationalist group with alleged historical ties to Nazi Germany.

One of the group's leaders told NBC News in April it was "proud" that Gorka wore its honorary medal while attending Trump's Inaugural Ball.

Gorka has denied membership in the organization, and said he wore the medal that had been awarded to his Hungarian-born father.

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KEYWORDS: bannon; gorka; trump
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To: flaglady47

Concerning his wife’s background, it is a good read and interesting. See she spent some time in North Carolina but didn’t let the liberal’s at Chapel Hill usurp or brainwash her mindset Don’t know how she could have still passed to get a degree...they usually check to see if the lobotomy was successful before bestowing a degree. Of course that was in the 80’s so I am thinking more about how it is today, not back then!


21 posted on 05/07/2017 8:24:48 AM PDT by ldish (Have had enough...you??????)
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To: RoosterRedux

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22 posted on 05/07/2017 8:30:21 AM PDT by Chgogal (I will NOT submit, therefore, Jihadists hate me.)
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To: RoosterRedux
After reading the article, I remember seeing someone on twitter saying that the ‘leaks’ have stopped at the White House now, just ‘fake news’ stories coming out and this reminds me of what that tweet could mean...

Reporters, media, talking heads and radio show hosts are coming out with the most outlandish style of stories that even a first grader would say: “Fake News”...

23 posted on 05/07/2017 8:36:35 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 ( "The Force Awakens!!!"...Trump and Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
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To: RoosterRedux

But . . . but . . . a certain loopy Freeper keeps saying Bannon is gone and that he lost all his juice to Kushner.


24 posted on 05/07/2017 10:18:37 AM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: Does so
Gorka is an amazing source on World Terror.

And thoroughly pro-American and pro-Trump.

25 posted on 05/07/2017 10:59:13 AM PDT by luvbach1 (I hope Trump runs roughshod over the inevitable obstuctionists, Dems, progs, libs, or RINOs!)
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To: marron
Interesting brief history of Vitezi Rend:

Vitezi Rend

Russia outlawed all organizations, even the Boy Scouts and religious groups in Hungary while under Russian rule, calling them all Facists. Couldn't find any relationship between the group and Nazi Germany.

The papers of General vitéz Hugó Sónyi are cited in the Online Archive of California. Sónyi is described as: "A colonel general in the Hungarian army, Sónyi commanded the Hungarian armed forces from September 1936 to March 1940. From 1945 until his death in 1958 he lived in exile in West Germany. The important achievement of Sónyi's exile years was reestablishment in 1953 of the Hungarian order of merit known as Vitéz, or Vitézi Rend in Hungarian. The Order of Vitéz, founded in 1678, revived in 1920, and abolished by the Soviet-imposed Communist government of Hungary in 1946, had been an important symbol of Hungary's historic commitment to independence and territorial integrity."

Generals of WWII

26 posted on 05/07/2017 11:02:26 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: RoosterRedux; marron; flaglady47

Extremely interested am I in who in the world thought Gorka beneath his office as an advisor.

It’s pretty clear that Flynn was made politically dead because he was a rebel, quite against the Iraq “deal”, hated by the Left and entirely too crude a warrior on the Iraq subject to tolerate. Flynn’s loose rules on foreign phone calls and development of sources, while between gigs, had to be shelved.

Now Gorka.

Someone near the Oval Office prefers ball room dancers to the warrior types.


27 posted on 05/07/2017 3:58:45 PM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey! Public Education/Academia are the farm team for more Marxists coming... infinitum.)
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To: RoosterRedux

placemark.


28 posted on 05/07/2017 9:20:28 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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