Today, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is scheduled to meet with President Trump. Here's what we can expect from his visit:
A man walks by an anti-migration billboard from the Hungarian government, on a street in Budapest, Hungary, on April 7, 2018.
Trump has nurtured friendly relationships with an array of global strongmen, including Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Sisi, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin.in Europe, embraces a nativist agenda that gives him special affinity with Trump.
Trump in turn has praised the Hungarian leader even as he has subverted legal checks and balances and enriched his inner circle. The White House defends Trump’s engagement with Orban, arguing that periodic scolding by the Obama administration did little to dissuade him from anti-democratic moves. Hungary recently allowed Russia’s International Investment Bank to open in Budapest even though its director has known ties to Russian intelligence., instead sending them back to Moscow to stand trial. That move drew criticism from the State Department.
Orban’s supporters will see his White House meeting “as an endorsement” by Trump, James Kirchick, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution, said by phone from London.
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