Sebastian Gorka, a national security aide whose hard-line views on immigration and terrorism caused discord inside and outside the White House, is the latest official to exit President Donald Trump’s administration. Mr. Gorka told The Associated Press on Friday that he had resigned from his position. A White House official, however, said Mr. Gorka did not resign but “no longer works at the White House”. A former editor for the conservative Breitbart News website, Mr. Gorka joined the administration as a counterterrorism adviser. Mr. Gorka wrote that “the individuals who most embodied and represented the policies that will ‘Make America Great Again,’ have been internally countered, systematically removed, or undermined in recent months”.

Source: The Hindu August 27, 2017 01:18 UTC