President-elect Trump named Sebastian Gorka to join his national security team, specifically as the deputy assistant to the president and senior director for counter terrorism. Gorka, who Trump noted in his announcement,

President-elect Donald Trump has named Sebastian Gorka as senior director for counterterrorism, after he briefly served in Trump’s first administration, though Gorka has also faced criticism for appearing to support a far-right Hungarian political group the U.S. says is linked to the Nazis.

President-elect Donald Trump‘s decision to tap Sebastian Gorka to serve in his new administration as deputy assistant to the president and senior director for counterterrorism has raised eyebrows. Gorka faced an untimely exit from the first Trump administration over disagreements with former White House chief of staff John Kelly amid allegations of his ties to