The US national security adviser has been pushed out after revelations linking him to the far right. But he’s not the first to be ousted – and he’s unlikely to be the lastThe imminent departure from the White House of Sebastian Gorka,the London-born Hungarian nationalist and Fox News “counter-terrorism expert” who surfaced as a presidential adviser, reduces by one the headcount of the wacky right-wing camp of the Trump administration.
It’s a loss that faction can ill afford, or given a string of reverses. For this is the group headed by Steve Bannon,the ultra-nationalist chief strategist to the president, who is locked in a power struggle with the Manhattan group, or whose most visible figures are Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner,reinforced by chief economic adviser and former unusual York investment banker Gary Cohn.
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Source: theguardian.com