Spox: Group Founded By Nazi Ally 'Proud' To See WH Adviser Wearing Its Medal

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo



By MATT SHUHAM Published APRIL 8, 2017, 2:19 PM EDT

The spokesperson for a Hungarian ultranationalist group, whose founder oversaw the murder of hundreds of thousands of Jews during World War II, said he was "proud" to see White House counterterrorism adviser Sebastian Gorka wear the group's medal, as he did at an inaugural ball on Jan. 20.

"When he appeared on U.S. television ... with the medal of the Vitez Order ... it made me really proud," Vitezi Rend spokesman Andras Horvath told NBC News, the network reported Saturday.

Gorka has said that he wears the medal in honor of his late father, who was a member of the group, and his struggle against the post-war communist rule of Hungary. Horvath told NBC that Paul Gorka, Sebastian's father, was at "an advanced level" of the Vitezi Rend, also called the Order of Vitez.

The current White House staffer pointed NBC to a statement he gave to the online publication Tablet, in which he denied ever being a member of, or pledging loyalty to, the order.

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/report-gorka-vitezi-rend-andras-horvath-piliscsaba

[dembotoz]

1. Understand that after ww2 we employed a number of Nazis in intelligence

Would have thought the would have to leave the old uniform stuff at home

[yardwork]

2. Wow.

[dalton99a]

3. This is like a German wearing SS insignia to honor their father

[Gothmog]

4. Gorka is a member of the Hungarian Nazi party

[riversedge]

5. Gorka, a former editor at the far-right Breitbart News and now a deputy assistant to the president

Wow--I did not know he was a deputy assistant to Trump.


............Sebastian Gorka, a former editor at the far-right Breitbart News and now a deputy assistant to the president, was photographed and interviewed at Trump’s inauguration in January wearing the uniform and medal of Vitézi Rend, a Hungarian order of merit that was once closely associated with Nazi Germany.