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April 27, 2017

Smearing Sebastian Gorka Cheapens the Memory of the Holocaust

Innuendo and guilt-by-association haven’t proved a Trump adviser to be a Nazi.

Over the past month, a number of journalists have accused Sebastian Gorka, a deputy assistant to President Trump, of support for or membership in a far-right, anti-Semitic, pro-Nazi Hungarian organization and thus, by implication, of being a Nazi sympathizer. The accusations have now been picked up and echoed by major media outlets and even by a member of Congress. Having repeatedly argued that the case against Gorka consists of evidential crumbs and innuendo, Liel Leibovitz writes about what is at stake:

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