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Sebastian Gorka and the White House's Questionable Vetting

A report in <em>The Forward </em>links Trump’s terrorism adviser to a Nazi-linked Hungarian fraternal group.
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Michael Flynn and Sebastian Gorka share a couple of things. Both men are rabidly anti-Islam, and both seem to have been insufficiently vetted by the Trump White House.

Flynn, of course, was the national security adviser pushed out after barely three weeks for lying to the vice president about his contacts with Russia. Last week, after Flynn filed papers acknowledging he had lobbied on behalf of the Turkish government between August 2016 and his appointment how Flynn could possibly have gotten appointed.

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