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Who is Sebastian Gorka, the Trump-appointee former US officials call an 'Islamophobic huckster?'

US President-elect Donald Trump has tapped Sebastian Gorka, a former Trump official and media commentator, to return to the White House and serve in a senior national security role in the new administration.

The son of Hungarian parents who fled to the UK after the failed uprising against the Soviet Union in 1956, Gorka immigrated to the US and became a naturalised US citizen in 2012. His political and media career eventually led him to serve a brief stint in the first Trump administration.

He has previously implied that 98 percent of "terrorists" in the United States are Muslim, and in a Breitbart column in 2016 demonised Muslim immigrants coming to the United States, saying that Muslims are, in the best case, opposed to American values and in the worst case, "want to kill us".

Former US officials Steven Simon and Daniel Benjamin, who served in national security and counterterrorism roles in the US  government, previously said that Gorka believes that violence in the Middle East is inextricably linked to the "martial language" of the Quran.

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