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Orbán cabinet explains position after recent US anti-corruption report on Hungary
Péter Szijjártó, the minister of foreign affairs and trade, said after a meeting of EU foreign trade ministers in Luxembourg on Monday that parts of an annual US trade report on Hungary “were dictated by” David Pressman, the former US ambassador to Budapest, so it contained “all kinds of fake news and lies.”
A ministry statement quoted the minister as saying that several Hungarian media outlets that have received US funding once referred to the US trade representative’s report today.
Szijjártó said such reports have been published annually since 1974, dismissing the implication that the latest report on Hungary was linked to a “specific presidential decree.”
“This report was written during the Biden administration, which saw Hungary as an enemy. David Pressman dictated the parts of this report relating to Hungary,” he said, adding that the former ambassador had “acted as an opposition activist” during his stint in Budapest.
He said comments were submitted from September 3, 2024, to October 17, 2024, before the November presidential election, as the report was being drafted, noting that US embassies could contribute such comments.
“There’s no question that David Pressman and his team produced all kinds of lies … about Hungary, which were printed in this document,” he said.
Szijjártó noted that he had met the new secretary of state, treasury secretary and charge d’affaires amid a “completely different atmosphere” in which cooperation was “fair and based on mutual respect”.
“So we certainly won’t have to encounter such false statements, such unfounded accusations and slander in official documents in the future,” the minister said.
Trump could have stopped the releasing of this report but didn’t do it….so, everything that the corrupt ass- licker Szijjártó says is like always a lie.
GASLIGHTING. This document was released SPECIFICALLY referencing Mr. Trump:
“March 31, 2025 – WASHINGTON — Today, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) submitted the 2025 National Trade Estimate (NTE) to President Trump and Congress. The NTE is an annual report detailing foreign trade barriers faced by U.S. exporters and USTR’s efforts to reduce those barriers.”
“No American President in modern history has recognized the wide-ranging and harmful foreign trade barriers American exporters face more than President Trump,” said Ambassador Greer. “Under his leadership, this administration is working diligently to address these unfair and non-reciprocal practices, helping restore fairness and put hardworking American businesses and workers first in the global market.”
“The findings of the 2025 NTE underscore President Trump’s America First Trade Policy and the President’s 2025 Trade Policy Agenda. To read the 2025 NTE, click here.”
Link to the source – 2025 NTE. You will have to search for “Hungary” since we did not get our own chapter. It is also obvious from the content this was not the doing of Mr. Pressman (or “Soros!”):
https://ustr.gov/sites/default/files/files/Press/Reports/2025NTE.pdf
Apologies for the caps. But this time it is just so BLATENT.
There is nothing to be explained. Everyone knows how corrupt is hungary. If Hungary would be applying hypothetically today to EU, there would be no chance to be accepted. Only naive believe in this government, but apparently this is the most of the citizens in this country
No one in europe has done more towards peace than Orban no help from the EU. Americans who care will always be grateful, especially Trump. Orban knows more about the situation in this part of the world and the people involved. No hungary is not first priorty in the 90 days of new trump admin. Orban push for peace is at the top of the list. We understand the void the biden / pressman left in this countryand you devistation of the loss the EU has become a joke with it effort to but troops on the ground and long for the UK to be apart of the EU- sane people in UK are having non of it.