Conservative conference in Budapest: here is what Trump said
Conservatives are “looking to stop a lot of the problems that are going on in the world, including in the United States,” former US President Donald Trump said in a video message to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Budapest on Friday, citing “socialism and even communism” as examples.
Trump thanked Hungary’s Centre for Fundamental Rights, the American Conservative Union and CPAC for the opportunity to address the event.
“It’s really been a fight, and you had a fight, and you’re doing fantastically well and everybody appreciates it,” the former president said. “Also,
CPAC Hungary, we are very close, as you know, all of us, to Viktor Orbán. He’s a great leader, a great gentleman, and he just had a very big election result. I was very honoured to have endorsed him.”
“A little unusual endorsement,” Trump said. “Usually I’m looking at the fifty states, but here we went a little bit astray. And I did that only because he really is a good man and
he’s done a fantastic job for his country,”
he said of Orbán.
“But it’s just an honour to be with you, even if it’s only briefly, even if it’s just doing it the way we’re doing it right now, and one of these days soon we’ll all be together,” Trump said. “Just keep up the good work, keep up the fight, and I will see you soon!”
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán met today Tom Van Grieken, head of the Belgian Vlaams Belang party, at the Castle District premises of the Prime Minister’s Office on Friday, the PM’s press chief said. Van Grieken is in Budapest to address the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Bertalan Havasi told MTI.
Van Grieken is in Budapest to address the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Bertalan Havasi told MTI. Orbán and Van Grieken were in agreement that
Europe’s conservative parties needed to unite to protect the traditional European way of life
based on nations, families, faith and work.
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The prime minister reiterated the view he expressed in his address to CPAC that conservatives needed to take the next two years to prepare so that together they could take back European institutions from the left in the 2024 European parliamentary elections. Friday’s meeting was also attended by Kinga Gál, Fidesz’s deputy leader, and Balázs Orbán, state secretary at the Prime Minister’s Office.
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Source: MTI
“Where Trump was a thrice-married playboy who boasted of sleeping with porn stars and managed to lose the 2020 election, Orbán seems both genuinely committed to upholding conservative cultural values and has grimly consolidated control over his country……….Among the terrifying implications of the American right’s embrace of Orbán is that it shows that the right would be willing to dismantle American democracy”. For a full take on this here is the link from a respected news portal: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/20/conservatives-republicans-cpac-hungary-orban
UPDATE: “Hungarian talkshow host who has called Jews ‘stinking excrement’ and Roma ‘animals’ addresses rightwing conference” (CPAC). https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/21/trump-shares-cpac-hungary-platform-racist-antisemite