MADRID 23 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president-elect of the United States, Donald Trump, announced this Saturday that the ultra-conservative political commentator and security analyst Sebastian Gorka will serve as a White House advisor specialized in the fight against terrorism.
Gorka, who does not need congressional ratification to hold his next position, will thus perform a function that is within the White House National Security Council after working as deputy assistant to the President from January to August 2017, during the first Trump’s mandate, although he ended up resigning.
The conservative newspaper ‘The Federalist’ noted at the time that Gorka’s departure was due to his dissatisfaction with the first months of the Trump Administration.
Shortly before his resignation, several Democratic senators urged Trump to confirm whether Gorka, who was born in the United Kingdom and has British, Hungarian and American nationality, was being investigated for allegedly belonging to a Hungarian neo-Nazi organization.
Gorka, in fact, attended the inaugural ball of President Trump’s first term wearing the honorary medal of the Hungarian nationalist organization Vitezi Rend, linked to Nazism, although its leaders have always rejected this relationship. Gorka defended himself by claiming that the medal was given to his father.
Trump has also announced that Alex Wong will be the deputy national security adviser and right-hand man to his pick for the top job, Mike Waltz.
Wong served as deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs and deputy special representative for North Korea in the first Trump administration.
In addition, Wong played a key role in the so-called Singapore Summit that brought Trump together with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in June 2018, in the first meeting of leaders of both countries since the Korean War in the mid-20th century.