Daily Take: The Vile & Un-American Reason Viktor Orbán is Manipulating US Politics
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 7 March 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
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If you want to see Trump’s and the GOP’s vision of America’s future, just visit Hungary…
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| 0:00.0 | The vile and un-American reason Victor Orbonne is manipulating U.S. politics. |
| 0:07.0 | Tomorrow Donald Trump is hosting Hungarian fascist leader Victor Orbonne for a strategy session at Maralago. |
| 0:14.6 | Trump has repeatedly praised Orbonne |
| 0:17.0 | and suggested he may model his presidency |
| 0:19.4 | should he get reelected this fall, or he'd be able to return to overturn the election on |
| 0:27.2 | January 6 2025 on Orban's rule of that benighted nation. |
| 0:33.0 | Orban's influence over Trump and the GOP is substantial. |
| 0:36.0 | He's addressed CPAC in Texas, hosted a CPAC meeting in Budapest |
| 0:40.0 | and been repeatedly interviewed by Tucker Carlson who did his Fox show from that country |
| 0:46.5 | for a full week. |
| 0:49.2 | He's regularly quoted and praised on Fox so-called news and by right-wing hate radio all across the |
| 0:55.2 | U.S. |
| 0:56.4 | He's close to Putin and the only European leader who openly argues that there should be no further |
| 1:00.9 | military aid to Ukraine. |
| 1:03.4 | When he hosted the CPAC Republican fascist fest in Budapest last May, the Hungarian saw fascism |
| 1:08.9 | strong man told the Republican audience to a standing ovation, quote, |
| 1:13.0 | Hungary is actually an incubator where experiments are done on the future of |
| 1:17.8 | conservative politics. |
| 1:19.4 | Hungary is the place where we didn't just talk about defeating the progressives and liberals and |
| 1:23.6 | causing a conservative Christian political turn, but we actually did it." |
| 1:27.6 | End quote. Orban's Fadez Party and the goals of the GOP in most red states have become virtually |
| 1:33.9 | indistinguishable from cronies owning the media to packing the courts to |
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