It’s not easy being an alpha male. Just ask Sebastian Gorka, former Hungarian politician turned Breitbart writer turned White House deputy assistant to Donald Trump, who has been criticized as much for his extreme Islamophobia as for his extreme lack of credentials (Gorka is virtually unique among political scientists in demanding that he be referred to as “doctor” in the press.) In recent months, the investigations into Gorka’s past have unearthed darker secrets, too: before he joined the Trump administration, Gorka reportedly affiliated himself with other far-right, anti-immigrant groups, including the Vitézi Rend, a Hungarian military order that was previously aligned with the Nazi Party, and the Hungarian Guard, an anti-Semitic paramilitary group whose creation Gorka initially cheered. (Gorka adamantly denied that he had ever been a member of the Vitézi Rend, and did not respond to the Hive’s request for comment about his alleged support for the Hungarian Guard.)

Now, once again, Gorka is back in the news. The bearded Trump adviser’s Monday began with a report from the Jewish Daily Forward, which has published several damaging stories about his past affiliations with right-wing extremist groups in Hungary. While Gorka had worn a medal representing the Vitézi Rend during Trump’s inauguration party, he claimed he only wore it in honor of his father. But according to the Forward, Gorka was more closely tied to the far-right group than he led reporters to believe. Gorka frequently went by “Sebestyén L. v. Gorka,” when he published articles in Hungary, using an honorific (“v,” an abbreviation of “Vitez”) that was only used by sworn members of the order. Notably, Gorka had used the honorific in papers long before his father, a member of the Vitézi Rend, had died, casting doubt on the claim that he had inherited the title.

The pressure may be getting to Gorka, if his behavior during a Georgetown University panel on cybersecurity Monday afternoon was any indication. Facing a crowd of hostile students who protested his ties to the Vitézi Rend and his views on Islam, Gorka grew more and more agitated as he defended his views. “Every single person holding a placard to protest my parents and myself, I challenge you now go away and look at everything I have said or written in the last 46 years of my life and find one sentence that is anti-Semitic or that is anti-Israeli, because you won’t find one,” he said. He also addressed the students who challenged him during a question-and-answer period, calling them the “victims of fake news” and said that the event was “a superb case study of fake news.”

He then gathered his things and abruptly marched off the stage. Gorka said he left “to allow my colleagues to actually get questions about the issues on the table.”