U.S. President Joe Biden took intention at Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán because the European autocrat met with Donald Trump, Biden’s predecessor, at his Mar-a-Lago property Friday.
“You already know who he’s assembly with right this moment down at Mar-a-Lago? Orbán of Hungary, who acknowledged flatly he doesn’t suppose democracy works, he’s in search of dictatorship. That’s who he’s assembly with,” mentioned Biden at a rally close to Philadelphia.
“I see a future the place we defend democracy, not diminish it. I see a future the place we defend our freedoms, not take them away.”
Biden’s remarks arrived on the identical day that Orbán, a far-right chief who has described migrants as “poison” and gone after LGBTQ+ rights, dropped by Mar-a-Lago in Florida, the place the previous president praised him as “improbable.”
“There’s no person that’s higher, smarter or a greater chief than Viktor Orbán,” mentioned Trump, who’s anticipated to face off with Biden within the 2024 presidential election.
“He’s a noncontroversial determine as a result of he says, ‘That is the best way it’s going to be and that’s the top of it,’ proper? He’s the boss. No, he’s an incredible chief.”
The go to got here a day after Orbán spoke at The Heritage Basis, a conservative suppose tank that leads an effort known as Undertaking 2025.
The undertaking, The Associated Press wrote, seems to be to recruit hundreds “to return to Washington on a mission to dismantle the federal authorities and change it with a imaginative and prescient nearer” to Trump’s, in case he retakes the White Home.
A CNN source described the encounter between Trump and Orbán as “pleasant,” whereas one other mentioned the Hungarian prime minister sought the assembly with the previous U.S. president.
A Biden administration official advised the community that the White Home didn’t invite Orbán to go to with the Democratic president, and the Hungarian prime minister didn’t ask to fulfill with Biden both.
Biden, earlier Friday, responded to a reporter who requested if he was “involved” that Trump was assembly with Orbán.
“If I’m not, you have to be,” he replied.
