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US State Department puts $700,000 into Hungarian media, demands “programming” against Orban, patriots

Nov 24, 2017 8:08 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

The U.S. State Department has courted controversy by announcing it will plough $700,000 into Hungarian media, angering the country’s anti-globalist, conservative government

This shocking report makes no sense given the commonalities between President Trump in “making America great again” and Victor Orban’s similar stance.

Orban has proved to be a rare strong figure in standing against unvetted mass Muslim migration that has seen Europe spiral into chaos. He has also opposed EU quotas in the face of threats of sanctions. In July, Orban stated that migrants were “poison” and “not needed.” Orban has also praised the victory of Donald Trump in putting America first, and declared 2017 “the year of rebellion” for Hungary.

Orban also upholds the cornerstone of democracy: free speech, which every brand of fascism has vehemently opposed. In a ground-breaking speech, Orban declared that “freedom begins with speaking the truth” and that “we must therefore drag the ancient virtue of courage out from under the silt of oblivion. First of all we must put steel in our spines.”

A message to take from the US State Department’s hostile move against Orban is that Trump still does not have control of the departments working under him. The many calls to “drain the swamp” still have not been heeded. As the article below points out:

The obvious subtext to all of this is that the State Department funding effort is intended to bolster anti-government and opposition media. This suggests it is still pursuing Obama era, anti-conservative policy objectives

It also suggests an undermining of the Trump Presidency. If not addressed, this will invite more such anti-Trump, anti-conservative initiatives which will have a negative impact upon Trump’s support base.

A month ago, Hungarian MP István Hollik expressed fears that “George Soros would use his organisation, now the second largest political activist charity in the world, to influence Hungary’s 2018 general election” and “remove Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz party from power, tear down the border fence, and implement the ‘Soros Plan’ to flood Europe with one million third-world migrants annually.”

Given the catastrophe that Europe has faced with its Hijra invasion, the move to undermine Victor Orban’s government demands immediate attention and intervention by Trump, as questions mount: who is really controlling America?

“U.S. State Dept Puts $700,000 into Hungarian Media, Demands ‘Programming’ Against Orban, Patriots,” by Jack Montgomery Breitbart, November 22, 2017 (thanks to Inexion):

The U.S. State Department has courted controversy by announcing it will plough $700,000 into Hungarian media, angering the country’s anti-globalist, conservative government.

The funding was announced by U.S. Chargé d‘Affaires David Kostelancik, who has previously appeared to openly criticise the Trump administration by alluding to “apparent inconsistencies in [U.S.] foreign policy” and remarking that “not every criticism of the government is ‘fake news’.”

Breitbart London spoke to a State Department official who confirmed it supports what it calls “democracy and human rights programming” in many countries, and that its intentions in Hungary — a NATO ally — are to “support media outlets operating outside the capital … to produce fact-based reporting and increase their audience and economic sustainability”.

The State Department also echoed Kostelancik’s claim that too many Hungarian news outlets are sympathetic to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s popular conservative government — which has earned powerful enemies by opposing the European Union on mass migration, building a highly effective border wall, and exposing the network of European politicians deemed “reliable allies” by billionaire open borders campaigner George Soros.

The obvious subtext to all of this is that the State Department funding effort is intended to bolster anti-government and opposition media. This suggests it is still pursuing Obama era, anti-conservative policy objectives internationally in defiance of President Trump, who has praised Prime Minister Orbán — the first European leader to back him — as “strong and brave”.

The Hungarian leader has maintained a position of strong opposition to “globalist elites, the bureaucrats who serve them, the politicians in their pay, and the agents of the Soros-type networks that embody their interests” despite fierce opposition from Brussels, pro-mass immigration NGOs, and left-liberal U.S. media, believing he is standing up for a “silent majority” of hard-pressed families across the West, who wish to preserve their Christian heritage and national identity.

For its part, the Hungarian government has denounced the State Department for what it regards as blatant interference in its internal affairs ahead of national elections in Spring 2018.

“What is this if not an intervention in the election campaign and the domestic politics of Hungary? Which Washington office can judge the applications of media organisations from a Hungarian county and what kind of balanced service they would like to offer?” asked Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó, who said it was shocking that American taxpayers’ money was being used to — to quote the State Department — “educate journalists on how to practice their trade” in an allied democracy.

“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade has summoned the U.S. Chargé d‘Affaires, asking for an explanation, and told him that we consider this a political intervention by the U.S. Department of State ahead of the elections,” a spokesman added.

The Hungarians have also robustly rejected the State Department’s accusations that there is no press freedom in their country.

For example, Prime Minister Orbán’s Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy, Dr. Zoltán Kovács, has highlighted the following exchange between journalists at Hungarian outlets 168óra and RTL Klub — neither of which “would ever be described as linked to the Orbán Government”, in his estimation:

168óra: Is there press freedom in Hungary?

Péter Kolosi: There is. If there weren’t, then there wouldn’t be an RTL Klub either.

Dr. Kovács then questioned whether Kostelancik — who is not the U.S. ambassador to Hungary, but only fulfilling that role temporarily while the Obama appointee he formerly served is in the process of being replaced — has any mandate to be attacking Hungary’s media landscape in the first place.

He also took the Chargé d‘Affaires to task for praising journalists of the “Communist old guard” who attended his speech for supposedly “striving to speak the truth” — a scene the Hungarian described as “stomach-turning”, given their history of collaboration with the Soviet-backed dictatorship.

Prime Minister Orbán, who opposed the Leftist regime at some personal risk as a younger man, has often chided Western leaders — and the European Union in particular — of “making excuses for the crimes of Communism”, and worked to make sure its victims are given due attention since his election.

Dr Kovács went on the publish a more extensive response to Kostelancik and the State Department, in which he lamented their actions as “astonishing and disappointing coming from an ally”.

Beyond the “clear interference in the domestic affairs of an ally”, he noted that “the media in the U.S. has its own issues. Criticisms related to concentration of media ownership, commercial relationships, and mainstream media bias – Harvey Weinstein, anyone? — are now the stuff of everyday in the U.S.”

He concluded by observing that one of Geroge Soros’s many so-called civil society organisations launched a media training operation in Hungary around the same time as Kostalencik announced the State Department funding scheme — leaving some suspicious as to who the “partner” the State Department intends to select to deliver its programme might turn out to be.

Hungary is in the midst of a fierce struggle with Soros and his EU backers over its opposition to his plan for the migrant crisis.

Hungary believes that the EU is implementing this plan on behalf of the convicted insider trader through the compulsory redistribution of migrants by a system quotas, among other measures, and is currently conducting a national consultation on it to demonstrate that its opposition to the plan has widespread public support…..

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  1. Terry Gain says

    Nov 24, 2017 at 8:39 am

    Trump needs to fire Tillerson McMaster and Sessions in order to implement his policies.

    • mortimer says

      Nov 24, 2017 at 8:50 am

      Drain the swamp.

    • DVult says

      Nov 24, 2017 at 4:03 pm

      Find out who authorized the payment and fire them along with their bosses and anyone else who had anything to do with it. Put John Bolton in there.

      • James Davis says

        Nov 25, 2017 at 11:00 am

        Personally, I’m considering moving to
        Hungary, as Apparently, Patriotism, & NATIONALISM, hasn’t gone out of style, & they have a Strong, Brave, “HUNGARY FIRST”, Leadership, & will Not Let A “MUSLIM/Third World”, INVASION, DESTROY THEIR COUNTRY!!! GOD BLESS HUNGARY & Their MAGNIFICENT LEADER!!! Action’s, Speak Louder Than WORD’S!!!

    • Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

      Nov 24, 2017 at 9:54 pm

      +1

    • larry says

      Nov 25, 2017 at 10:21 am

      Amen to that.

    • bonnie louise loranger says

      Nov 26, 2017 at 3:04 pm

      I agree

  2. mortimer says

    Nov 24, 2017 at 8:49 am

    Migration (hijra) is the soul-mate of jihad. The two work together as two legs of the body walking ever forward.

    Many Europeans are discovering the method of HIJRA-JIHAD which is genocidal in nature.

    European Leftists also understand HIJRA, but they think that they will be able to control it, direct it and then stop it when they have got what they want, which is the destruction of all European traditions and identities.

    • Older Canadian says

      Nov 24, 2017 at 7:46 pm

      So true!

    • maria says

      Nov 25, 2017 at 7:17 am

      Well said

  3. StacyGirl says

    Nov 24, 2017 at 9:22 am

    Isn’t this what some in the U S accused Russia of doing: manipulation of the masses through propaganda? It will backfire and be a waste of tax dollars.

    • Santa Voorhees says

      Nov 24, 2017 at 10:24 am

      It is not collusion when the leftists do it.

      • Older Canadian says

        Nov 24, 2017 at 7:48 pm

        Love your comment, totally agree.

    • Bob says

      Nov 25, 2017 at 9:25 am

      +1

  4. Krazy Kafir says

    Nov 24, 2017 at 9:24 am

    Unfortunately is does make sense, since Trump is drowning in the swamp.

  5. PATRICIA FRANCES KOENIG says

    Nov 24, 2017 at 9:37 am

    And the USA was so morally indignant about Russia supposedly influencing our democracy! Hypocrisy on steroids! On top of that, the US State Dept will have to borrow that $700,000 and pay interest on it! The Globalists control our government.

    • Diane says

      Nov 24, 2017 at 12:13 pm

      Orban needs to have a one-on-,one phone call with Trump, and ask, “Why are your U.S. Taxpayers paying to meddle in my country’s election?” Trump needs to get to the bottom of it,, and stop it.

  6. Batt says

    Nov 24, 2017 at 10:17 am

    Whaaaaaat? The USA monkeying with another nations politics????

  7. Voytek Gagalka says

    Nov 24, 2017 at 11:28 am

    At this moment it is not quite certain if President Trump controls his own State Department or the State Department controls him. I am not sure of that. The swamp has been not drained and/or need to have new extensive application of the “Liquid-Plumber.”

  8. makmorn says

    Nov 24, 2017 at 1:07 pm

    dealing with the demented left has to be our #1 priority or we can just forget it. The hearts and minds of the youth belong to them. We had better find a way to turn this around and quickly.

  9. Berengaria says

    Nov 24, 2017 at 1:23 pm

    The US STATE DEPT. seems to be a Government within the American Government. The STATE DEPT is not only enforcing the UN’S AGENDA, but is now initiating its own UN PROPAGANDA PROGRAM to undermine the Hungarian Nation State. ORBAN is right, the State DEPT is using American TAXPAYER FUNDS to Destroy HUNGARY!
    REX needs to KICK ASS, or have his own ass kicked.

  10. Lydia says

    Nov 24, 2017 at 2:16 pm

    I sense something sinister lurking behind the scenes… again!
    And that things are not always… what they appear to be…

  11. DFD says

    Nov 24, 2017 at 3:06 pm

    “….Given the catastrophe that Europe has faced with its Hijra invasion, the move to undermine Victor Orban’s government demands immediate attention and intervention by Trump, as questions mount: who is really controlling America?…”

    George Soros! Trump is, or at least seems to be, bought and paid for. Controlled opposition, nothing more than that. “The people are fed up? OK, make a look as if they get what they want – and whenever action is needed, field an endless list of excuses… ‘deep state… court rules… balancing interests… Our fundamental interests… blah blah blah…” !!!

    Look at the Trump tower in Chicago:
    ============================

    Trump repays of the Deutsche Bank about $600 million for a **normal, standard** loan/mortgage. Then George Soros forgives him about $80 million of a mezzanine “loan” which enables Trump to reek in about $300 million in profits or non-applicable taxes. A mezzanine is **highly, extremely toxic!** Google up the term. My, isn’t George Soros kind hearted to simply forgive Trump such a debt – without anything return. Good old George… Jesus Christ, Soros owns Trump!

    Trump draining the swamp? Take a look at his cabinet and other posts he has created!!!! – And whom has fired! He is pumping water into swamp and extra alligators. And if he can’t find any, he imports crocodiles.

    I am sad to say this, but most of you seem to be transfixed by a lot of bullshit, red pills the size of mill stones; consisting of words you want to hear. Compare these with his actions.

    The US was instrumental, supplies to Soviets, and later direct action, in defeating the foremost military power on earth, apart from the US. I.e. Germany under the Nazis. But Trump couldn’t defeat ISIS?!?!?! Whilst the Russians in conjunction with Assad did exactly that. Wake up!! You are being had, continuously.

  12. tgusa says

    Nov 24, 2017 at 3:49 pm

    These days in America we hear a never-ending barrage of election tampering by foreigners coming out of the mouths of the creep states sewer of malcontents. The creep state appears to not understand that election tampering is a two way street. If the creeps don’t want our elections to be tampered with don’t tamper with other peoples elections, it is real simple, stupids. This is MAGA vs. MASA in an all out battle for the heart and soul of our civilizations that we have come to know and love. The hole card that we have in this is that for decades the creep state has proven to be a gigantic loser on the global stage.

  13. marble says

    Nov 24, 2017 at 4:31 pm

    Hungarian Soros undermining country of adoption, the United States, in order that we help undermine his native home, Hungary. Soros, seek citizenship of North Korea.

  14. Older Canadian says

    Nov 24, 2017 at 7:44 pm

    Hungary mainly consists of very strong people. I doubt this will have any effect upon them, except perhaps resentment of such a nasty interference into their media to sway their upcoming elections. This country still teaches their history to their people, and therefore have the smarts not to repeat it, and the desire to protect their country.

    I just hope it doesn’t put a damper on their relationship with the USA.

  15. Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

    Nov 24, 2017 at 9:58 pm

    Soros’ tentacles are everywhere. Well … just look at the guy; he looks like an octopus. (My apologies to octopodes everywhere.)

  16. Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

    Nov 24, 2017 at 9:59 pm

    I’m not an American taxpayer but if I were, I would let this rogue player know what I think of him:

    https://hu.usembassy.gov/embassy/budapest/dcm/

    PublicAffairsBudapest@state.gov

  17. tgusa says

    Nov 25, 2017 at 12:20 am

    Regardless of what my sister, daughter, wife, mother or girlfriend has or may have done you do understand what the punishment is for a guy like you (and your co-conspirators) that try to bring this type of self styled ideological horror in to my life.

    No, you probably don’t, not at this moment. Of course and sadly, this woman being a muslima, she wont qualify for this sort of privilege.

    • tgusa says

      Nov 25, 2017 at 12:21 am

      Sorry, wrong thread.

  18. Anne Smith says

    Nov 25, 2017 at 6:39 am

    Seem that the American civil service is very similar to the British one, left wing policies rule OK and to hell with whoever thinks they are in government, we do as we please.

    The British civil servant rule the day in UK and until a few are sacked nothing will change.

  19. jewdog says

    Nov 25, 2017 at 10:42 am

    The State Department is an unelected bureaucracy with an agenda that reflects the sort of leftist gibberish picked up in today’s toxic campuses by the people that comprise its staff. So far, President Trump seems to lack the wherewithal to drain that swamp.

  20. Dean says

    Nov 25, 2017 at 5:38 pm

    Why not a truthful ad campaign against George Soros – pointing out his long family history beginning with his profiteering off the assets of dead or about to be gassed/murdered Jewish victims during/after WWII?

  21. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Nov 25, 2017 at 6:26 pm

    More swamp holdovers from pResident Hussein’s regime.

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