Two Hungarian judges met US ambassador to Budapest David Pressman last week. Several government-close media outlets argues that they should resign because they are under the influence of a foreign power due to their meeting with the American diplomat. Below you may read the reaction of the US embassy in Budapest in the issue.
Below is Mr Pressman’s post:
And here is the embassy’s reaction on the attacks from government-close media outlets:
The United States Embassy’s recent meeting with representatives of the Hungarian judiciary is consistent with the normal conduct of diplomacy by the United States and other countries – including Hungary – around the world. What is inconsistent with normal diplomatic practice between allies is the recent coordinated media attack on the spokesperson and international liaison of the National Judicial Council in what appears to be an effort to instill fear in those who wish to engage with representatives of the United States.
Interference in dialogue with U.S. government officials does nothing to advance the U.S.-Hungary bilateral relationship.
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Source: hu.embassy.gov
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American Ambassador, Pressman, has no right either to bribe or pressure Hungarian judges. These judges no longer can be trusted and must be fired.
@mariavontheresa
😮 😮 That is one hell of an accusation!
Do you have any proof that the Ambassador of the U.S.A. bribed or pressured any of those judges? If so, come forth, and prove it to the people of Hungary!
If I were were the Ambassador, I’d be contemplating seeking legal advice about such accusations.
Come to think of it, you are also accusing those judges of taking a bribe (as I do not see “attempt” to bribe).
mariavontheresa – again you “shot straight from your hip.”
We know having re-located as you did sometime in the past, from Hungary to Canada, your ABSOLUTE true colours of your Political affiliation’s support and beliefs – which NEVER waver from your BELEIF – that the Fidesz Political Party, under their Leader and present Prime Minister of Hungary – Victor Orban, are RIGHT to Govern, under a dictatorial styled agenda, this country – our place of residency Hungary.
Looking from the outside in marievontherea – another world, to actually sitting in the cataclysmic MESS that Victor Orban and his “lot” have placed Hungary in, which if you remove your “rose coloured glasses” – paints a picture that is a DISASTER.
Hungary:
“When the Yoke is Broken,
the Burden is Removed.”
What’s your opinion marievontheresa – of Canada, your country of residency, taking in another 1.5 million immigrants?
Invited opportunity for you to again to – “shoot straight from your hip.”
The Judiciary of Hungary, its FACTUALLY known and accepted, not just by the European Union, Great Britain and the United States of America, but by wider Europe & Globally, that the Judiciary of Hungary, are a “Puppet on a String” to the Fidesz Party, under its Leader and present “embattled” dictatorial Prime Minister of Hungary – Victor Orban.
What the eyes in this article, senior Judges of the Court of Hungary or Judiciary, may represent, by the newly appointed United States Ambassador to Hungary – a muchly credentialed individual for this somewhat this testing & challenging posting, the eyes give one message BUT what is going on in the head.
Hungary the acquired factual knowledge KNOWN, the operation of the Governmental – its POWER & Control over and of the Judiciary in Hungary, signed off and approved by no other than Victor Orban, does NOT please country’s – not just member countries of the European Union, but those who FUNCTION and are under the Governance of DEMOCRACY.
Can Hungary – on the LIST of requirements from the European Union, under the “dictatorial” leadership” of the Hungarian Government by Victor Orban, can Hungary remove itself, the Orban led Government, from its POWER & Control – over the Hungarian Judiciary?
Answer- “the horse has bolted” over a decade we have lived with and witnessed factually, in Hungary, the Power & Control – the Manipulation by the Orban Government over the Judiciary.
The “undoing” of this present ongoing Power & Control – the ASK on Orban and his “lot” – would cause cataclysmic explosions throughout the Fidesz Party and the “inner sanctum” – Oligarchs.
Hungary’s – ongoing membership being a member Family of the European countries – continues, under this Orban “dictatorial” government, remain in a PRECARIOUS position.
WHO remain FRIENDS of Hungary?
Country’s ruled/governed under Dictatorships being Russia & China.
1945-1989 – remember may have been part of, but read HISTORY – as it NEVER lies, because we in Hungary are trending rapidly back into this DARKENED time zone in Hungary, that we were under a DICTATORSHIP, who decades on, we hold Russia – right at this point in time, one of our only (2) two FRIENDS.
Does anyone have a record of the conversation? How were the judges chosen for the chat? Pressman had no previous relations with the two judges, it was not a friendly lunch.
FINALLY, an article in a US newspaper stated that Soros’ group, the Rockerfeller group and Biden are bribing leftwing Hungarian media to support socialists’ lies during the election. Yet, the Americans complained bitterly when Russia interfered in their election.
It is time to take of the rose-colored classes people, use critical thinking when analyzing world affairs.
@Dishelvelment / Disarray
No no, Hungary has more than two friends! 😉
We must not forget Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Donald Trump, oh I already mentioned Donald Trump. 😉 😀 Then, what about Tucker Carlson, Marie Le Pen, Jair Bolsonaro, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Benjamin Netanyahu, Alexander Lukashenko, Geert Wilders, Georgia Meloni, and who knows, maybe even Kim Jong-un.
…Birds of a feather flock together.
@mariavontheresa I couldn’t agree more: “It is time to take of the rose-colored classes people, use critical thinking”.
US newspaper – Breitbart??? Fox News? Western Journal?
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/11/06/soros-rockefeller-org-biden-admin-fund-opposition-media-org-launch-in-hungary-reports/
Truth matters, the facts matter, reliable sources are important. And analyze the available data.
https://hvg.hu/gazdasag/20200123_Transparency_International_korrupcio_cpi_korrupt_kozbeszerzes
This is unfortunately OLD – let’s hope things have gotten better and there’s not some pattern. There’s always hope, right?