How does Hungary’s Orban meddle in American politics? Follow the money!
Hungary’s Premier Orban Wades Deeper Into US Politics… – Bloomberg
“Project 2025 presents an apocalyptic vision of a United States whose dark problems can be fixed only by a minority assuming power under a strongman and imposing their values on the rest of the country… The tight cooperation between the Heritage Foundation and Orbán illuminates Project 2025, the plan Heritage has led, along with dozens of other right-wing organizations, to map out a future right-wing presidency. – Letters From An American
- Orbán has undermined democracy
- Gutted the civil service and filling it with loyalists
- Attacked immigrants, women, and the rights of LGBTQ+ individuals
- Taken over businesses for friends and family
- Moved the country away from the rules-based international order supported by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Follow the money and lobbyists with this map to see how Orban meddles in American politics to help Trump push Project 2025 to replace American democracy with a Hungarian-style Christian dictatorship.
Heritage Foundation
- Kevin Roberts has been vocal about his admiration for Orbán, tweeting in 2022 that it was an honor to meet him.
- At last year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Orbán boasted that Hungary is “the place where we didn’t just talk about defeating the progressives and liberals and causing a conservative Christian political turn, but we actually did it.”
- Roberts had called modern Hungary “not just a model for conservative statecraft but the model.” – Letters From An American
- Heritage lead the effort to gut funding for Ukraine.
- Heritage has endeavored to anchor its relations with Orbán, making Budapest once more America’s preferred partner in Europe—regardless of the cost.
- Kevin Roberts, appointed as Heritage’s president in 2021, immediately began remaking Heritage’s priorities with a distinctly pro-Orbán bent—and began opening up Heritage as a vehicle for Hungarian influence in the U.S. – TNR
Hungarian propaganda for Trump
“In Hungary, a state-funded organization that serves as little more than a propaganda arm for Orbánist policies—and which has already directly funded a number of American conservative writers—has formally partnered with an American think tank that’s collapsed into little more than a bastion of Trumpism.
Both have thus provided platforms for one another, reinforcing each other’s efforts and reaching mutual audiences on both sides of the Atlantic. All the while, they’ve done so in a manner that hasn’t required any transparency about finances or expectations and that skirts America’s current foreign lobbying laws—keeping both Americans and Hungarians in the dark about the relationship.” – TNR
Learn more about Project 2025
Stop The Coup 2025 / Listen to podcast
How Project 2025 Will Ruin Your Life / Listen to podcast
What’s in a Trump dictatorship for you in Project 2025?
TakeAway: Follow the Hungarian money to lobbyists who are undermining American democracy and promoting a Christian dictatorship outlined in Project 2025. Vote for President Biden and democrats to protect your freedoms and American democracy.
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