Stephanie Keith/Reuters From February to August 2017, Department of Homeland Security emails show, Katie Gorka and other Trump officials worked to find reasons to strip government funding for a group dedicated to deradicalizing white supremacists. Katie Gorka, a Trump administration political appointee in the Department of Homeland Security, suggested in a July 2017 email that the agency, which had just canceled funding for a group dedicated to deradicalizing white supremacists, redirect its efforts to focus on the real threat: anti-fascists. Gorka’s name may sound familiar because she is married to prominent vest wearer Sebastian Gorka, who is definitely not a Nazi. At the time, Trump loyalists were pushing for the program to focus exclusively — instead of just primarily — on Muslims. The memo appears to borrow extensively from Gorka’s research, summarized in a May 26 email to Barsa, Maher and a redacted recipient.

Source: Huffington Post April 05, 2019 19:52 UTC