text: The White House employed a Hungarian fugitive for seven months, according to an arrest warrant that appears to show that Sebastian Gorka, a former adviser to Donald Trump, was wanted there on weapons charges as of September 2016. 
   
   
   
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   The warrant, first reported by Hungarian online outlet 444 and BuzzFeed News is for “firearm or ammunition abuse”. 
   
   Gorka, a former Breitbart writer and Trump campaign surrogate, served as “deputy assistant” to the president during his White House tenure, but the exact nature of his role was vague. Gorka was reportedly forced out last August, by the chief of staff, John Kelly, who had recently assumed the role. 
   
   Details on the alleged crime triggered the warrant were scarce. The site 444 noted that it could have resulted from an incident as far back as 2009. Hungarian police did not respond to a request for comment. 
   
   Gorka told the Guardian that “since I moved to the US in 2008”, a year before the possible 2009 incident, he would decline to comment. 
   
   “More #FAKENEWS,” he then added. 
   
   He did not reply to a question about whether the incident could have occurred on a visit back to his native Hungary. 
   
   Gorka has a longstanding and well-documented interest in guns. He told Recoil magazine in November that his “everyday carry” includes two pistols, a knife, a tourniquet – and for good measure – a copy of the US constitution. In February 2016, he had a pistol confiscated after attempting to bring it through Washington’s Reagan national airport. 
   
   Born in the UK to Hungarian-born parents, Gorka spent much of his career in the Hungarian ministry of defense working on issues of counter-terrorism. Since he became a fixture of the Trump campaign and administration, numerous experts have raised questions about his formal credentials and his work in the field of counter-terrorism, and noted his connections to the “alt-right” in the US and fringe rightwing groups in Hungary. ||||| Former Trump adviser Sebastian Gorka was wanted by Hungarian police during his entire White House tenure, Buzzfeed reports. 
   
   An ally of Steve Bannon’s and a former editor at Breitbart News, Gorka appears to still be wanted in Hungary on a charge of “firearm or ammunition abuse.” A listing on a Hungarian police website, first reported by local 444, offers little more detail about what got Gorka in trouble, other than suggesting the incident took place in 2009 and the warrant was issued in September of 2016. 
   
   On Twitter, Gorka appeared to deny the charge, noting that he moved to the U.S. in 2008. That doesn’t mean he couldn’t have been in Hungary in 2009, but that’s apparently what he wants people to think. 
   
   If Gorka was in fact popped for a gun charge in Hungary, it wouldn’t be his first firearm-related run in with the law. In 2016 he was charged with carrying a gun at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. But that didn’t convince him to put weapons away. Earlier this year he told Recoil magazine that his “everyday carry” consists of two pistols, a knife, a flashlight, a tourniquet and a copy of the U.S. Constitution. ||||| Former Trump White House staffer Sebastian Gorka has an active warrant out for his arrest in Hungary, according to the Hungarian police's website. 
   
   Gorka, whose exact role in the White House while serving as a deputy assistant to the president was never entirely clear, apparently is in trouble with the law over a charge of "firearm or ammunition abuse." The warrant, first reported in Hungarian online outlet 444, was issued on Sept. 17, 2016, prior to Trump's election. 
   
   
   
   That means that during the entire seven months Gorka spent in the White House, including when meeting with Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó in Washington last March, an arrest warrant was pending overseas. 
   
   
   
   Details about the reasoning behind the warrant are sparse: The Hungarian police's website only notes the date it was issued, the charge, and that it was filed with the Budaörs police station in Budapest. 444 noted that the charge could have resulted from an incident as far back as 2009. The police station did not immediately respond to BuzzFeed News' request for comment. 
   
  
target: – President Trump's deputy assistant was a wanted man during his seven-month stint in the White House, the Guardian reports. A warrant out of Hungary states Sebastian Gorka has been wanted on charges for "firearm or ammunition abuse" since September 2016. According to BuzzFeed, the warrant is still active. It's unclear what Gorka did to earn the warrant, though he has boasted in the past of regularly carrying two pistols and was stopped trying to carry a pistol through an airport in 2016. A Hungarian news outlet reports the warrant could be from an incident in 2009. Gorka, a former Breitbart writer, tells the Guardian the warrant is "more #FAKENEWS." On Twitter he responded to coverage of the warrant by saying he moved to the US in 2008. New York notes Gorka didn't necessarily have to be living in Hungary to have been there at some point in 2009. Gorka's actual role at the White House was unclear before he left in August (he claims he resigned, but reports say he was fired by new chief of staff John Kelly). However, it does appear Gorka was wanted by Hungary at the same time he met with that country's foreign minister as a White House adviser, which is, if nothing else, slightly ironic.