The U.S.’s new secretary of state could be a person of Hungarian origins
Even though no official personal decisions have been made yet, newspapers guessed who President-elect Biden could possibly include in his future team. One likely candidate is Anthony Blinken, who is one of Biden’s closest advisors, and who happens to be of Hungarian origins.
According to Reuters, Tony Blinken is seen as the most “natural fit to be Biden’s national security advisor or a possible pick for secretary of state.”
A former Obama administration official said that Biden has “implicit trust in Tony.” On his recent campaign trail, Blinken was one of Biden’s closest advisors, “even on issues that went beyond foreign policy.”
This is all guesswork at this point, as a spokesman for Biden’s transition team claimed that no personnel decisions had been made yet.
Career
Blinken served as a deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 under President Barack Obama and as U.S. deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017. Blinken was also involved in the planning of the 2011 U.S. military raid that killed Osama bin Laden. He worked as an advisor for Biden during his previous unsuccessful 2008 presidential campaign.
During Biden’s early years as Barack Obama’s VP, Blinken served as his national security advisor and as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee when Biden was chair.
Hungarian origins
Magyar Hang writes that
both Blinken’s birth mother Judith and his stepmother Vera have Hungarian origins. His father Donald was Ambassador of the United States to Budapest between 1994 and 1998.
Vera and Donald Blinken were avid supporters of the establishment of the Open Society Archives (OSA) at the Central European University in Budapest, which is named Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives after them. Unfortunately, CEU was basically forced out of Hungary by the current government and their new laws on higher education.
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Source: reuters.com; hang.hu
10 Comments
Certainly, U.S. President el. Biden will make the best choice, and Blinken looks like an excellent candidate to some important post.
Supporters of Biden are anti-Hungary. Biden, the corrupt politician, has already started debasing the Hungarian government. Any supporter of the senile old goat Biden, will tow the official line. Do not believe Greeks bearing gifts.
Maria, you are such a silly and amateur troll. Maria, are you implying Biden would be like the Habsburgs?
Seriously, whomever you are, you’re not even clever in you pronouncements. Calling Biden corrupt while supporting Trump or Orban destroys any credibility to your arguments(here and on other posts). Go back to school.
Biden has not won the US presidental election. Voter fraud is being investigated in several states.
Biden is a corrupt politician. He has not won the presidential election.
Orbán’s fans calling U.S. elections a fraud is really funny. As if Hungarian elections of 2014 and 2018 were not a fraud…
Anyway, Biden won Arizona too, and no authority is endorsing Trump’s ridiculous claims in any state. Even in Georgia, the gap between Biden and Trump gets wider and wider. Soon, the childish brat will be nothing but an embarassing memory of a past which will fade rapidly. Fortunately.
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The Republican Party – if their conduct and behaviour continues to be deemed and viewed as overt, such as speech and organization, that tends to-wards rebellion, against the established order, then Sedition, could be rightfully commenced, against Republican Party Members.
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The US election is not over yet, that means there is no president elect. There is more going on than you know. Georgia has just requested another hand counting of the ballots. Executives from Dominion, the voting machine company, after not showing up to court have mysteriously disappeared. Sydney Powell has volumes of evidence of election fraud. Election fraud lawsuits that have been filed in certain states and that have been denied are going to the Supreme Court of the United States. Trump 2020 MAGA!