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Kitti Erdő-Bonyár Kitti Erdő-Bonyár · 12/11/2020
· Politics

The U.S.’s new secretary of state could be a person of Hungarian origins

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Anthony Blinken

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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.

Read alsoThese are the most important ties of Joe Biden to Hungary: Lake Balaton, Lantos, former PM

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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Read alsoCEU Rector: Orbán cabinet appears to have decided on university’s fate in Hungary – UPDATE

Source: reuters.com; hang.hu

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10 Comments

  1. Mario says:
    12/11/2020 at 19:23

    Certainly, U.S. President el. Biden will make the best choice, and Blinken looks like an excellent candidate to some important post.

  2. Maria Von Theresa says:
    12/11/2020 at 21:25

    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.

  3. Káposztafej says:
    12/11/2020 at 23:12

    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.

  4. SuzyQ says:
    13/11/2020 at 01:43

    Biden has not won the US presidental election. Voter fraud is being investigated in several states.

  5. SuzyQ says:
    13/11/2020 at 01:45

    Biden is a corrupt politician. He has not won the presidential election.

  6. Mario says:
    13/11/2020 at 11:11

    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.

  7. ALBERT ANDREW BOOTH says:
    13/11/2020 at 13:29

    The Democrats – who have democratically and rightfully won the U.S.A. elections, will not be intimidated – threatened, by the repetitious jargon, of Trumps, lost and bewildered baseless, without substance, empty rhetoric, which is Heinous.
    The Democratic Party, under The American Constitution, after the inauguration of the 46th President of The United States of America – Joseph, Robinette. Biden Jr – on the 20th January 2021, has in its powers, the right, to commence legal proceedings against Republican Party Members, under the Constitutional and Legal term called – Sedition.
    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.
    Sedition – is broad in its purpose of Law, additionally including – subversion of a constitution and incitement of discontent toward, or rebellion against established authority.
    We know – its America, the country where – Anything Goes – and this could be another entry into the History books of America, bought on, by there ERROR in the 2016 Presidential elections, permitting and electing – Donald. J. Trump as their “infamous” – 45th President.

  8. Natalia Smith says:
    13/11/2020 at 17:14

    An amazing fictional story…”President-elect Biden ” Biden is NOT ‘President-elect”. While votes are still being counted, and the most massive election fraud in US history is being uncovered, President Trump LEADS in all states with undisputed votes.

  9. Monkeyrooster says:
    17/11/2020 at 21:01

    Dear Mr. Zoltan Kovacs, pls refrain from commenting under pseudonyms (SuzyQ, Natalia Smith etc.)

  10. SuzyQ says:
    22/11/2020 at 12:55

    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!

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