Officials believed it would be politically damaging for Trump to befriend the authoritarian, euroskeptic, anti-immigration and anti-free press leader.
Trump gravitates towards controversial and authoritarian leaders, seemingly enjoying closer relationships with figures such as Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping than the leaders of America's Western allies.
Democrats Eliot Engel, chairman of the Foreign Affairs committee, and Marcy Kaptur co-chair of the Congressional Hungarian caucus, didn't share Trump's admiration for Orban. Before the May meeting, the pair released athat said Orban represents"so many things that are antithetical to core American values."
Trump's perception reportedly influenced his decision to press Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to investigate 2020 rival Joe Biden and his son Hunter for alleged corruption. Revelations about these efforts eventually prompted the ongoing Democratic impeachment investigation into Trump. Orban and his predecessors have accused Ukraine of persecuting the Hungarian-speaking minority living in the border region of Transcarpathia, for example by banning the teaching of minority languages in school beyond primary school.
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