Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán encouraged former President Trump to “fight for your own truth” at the Conservative Party Political Action Conference in Hungary.
The European Union’s longest-serving leader defended President Trump during the third CPAC Hungary in Budapest. Dutch Party Leader Geert Wilders and Representative Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) also attended.
“If necessary, they will use the state institutions against us — ‘weaponize the state institutions,'” as an American friend of mine says, according to the Associated Press. Probably.” “This happens all the time to us Hungarians in Brussels. This is what is happening with American President Trump and we encourage him to fight for his truth not only in the elections but also in the courts.”
The Hungarian prime minister appeared to broadly refer to the criminal charges President Trump faces in the United States, where a trial over the first indictment in the hush money case is underway in New York.
The former president is accused of falsifying business records in a New York case related to reimbursing his then-fixer Michael Cohen for payments he made to porn star Stormy Daniels to keep her quiet about an alleged affair with Trump. He is charged with 34 felonies.
Prime Minister Orbán, who has been supported by the US right in recent years, believes that the upcoming US elections and the European Union (EU) elections scheduled for June will be a “win” for “progressive liberals” on both fronts. He said it was an opportunity to replace him.
“This election coincides with major changes in global political and geopolitical trends,” he said, according to the Associated Press. “The world order is changing, and we must lead our cause to victory in the midst of that change. Progressive liberals sense the danger of replacing this era. That means replacing them.”
President Trump met with numerous foreign leaders as he campaigned for his second term in the White House. The former president hosted Mr. Orbán at the Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida in early March. Prime Minister Orbán said during his visit that he takes the same position as President Trump on the Ukraine war.
Mr Orbán spoke at a two-day political conference this week and was previously a keynote speaker at CPAC in the US.
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