Posted on 02/19/2025 3:45:45 AM PST by hardspunned
President Donald Trump’s administration is pressuring Romanian authorities to allow Călin Georgescu to run in the presidential elections in May, Bloomberg reports.
The information appears just a few days after Vice President JD Vance’s harsh criticism of Romania, regarding the cancellation of the November elections.
In recent days, in private meetings with their Romanian counterparts, U.S. officials have focused almost exclusively on the vote, warning Romanian officials not to block the candidacy of Georgescu, a Trump supporter who has criticized NATO and praised Vladimir Putin, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the discussions who spoke on condition of anonymity. The Trump administration’s concern about the situation in Romania had already been highlighted by Vice President J.D. Vance’s speech at the Munich Security Conference, where he criticized Romania’s decision in December to cancel the November election. Bloomberg reported that Romanian Foreign Minister Emil Hurezeanu and Trump’s envoys Keith Kellogg and Richard Grenell exchanged views at the Munich conference.
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The U.S., no longer a global force for woke repression and tyranny.
Yup. Time to oust the CIA from Romania.
Romania now has the largest NATO base near the port of Constanta.
They can’t allow a Trump supporter to be elected there...
Expect trouble...
Yeah I was a little surprised when I found out that’s where the US was holding some of the 9/11 terrorists. You have to be pretty sure of you power in a country to use it’s prisons as black sites.
the ukraine war cheerleaders will be very upset by this - they prefer dictators who cancel elections and support continued death and destruction of white Christians like their butt buddy fagboy Zelensky
Is that base operational yet? How many hundreds of millions have we sunk into it? Will EUTO take the base over when we’re gone? Will the soon to be legitimate leader of Romania close the base?
Hungary, Slovakia and Romania will form a competing, non aligned bloc in Eastern Europe.
This is crazy. I homeschool 11, 13 and 15 year old grandchildren. I have to trash one or two lesson plans a week, revising and trying to keep up with the changes happening.
It’s the same kind of vibe as when the Soviets walked away from the Berlin Wall.
Mr. President, the UK just “postponed” a number of Council elections that were due to take place in May.
Might want to bring that up with Two Tier Free Gear Keir when he arrives for his little visit.
Remember when “America was a shining city upon hill”? Those days have returned. When JD Vance spoke in Munich, he was speaking to the downtrodden, persecuted and disenfranchised voters of Britain and the EU.
Georgescu is pro-Russia, which is a little worrying, and Russia probably is more able to manipulate the Romanian election than Western elections. But that doesn’t mean that we should support a CIA / EU plan to keep him from running. That would just ramp up pro-Russia sentiment even more. The best thing would be to let him win and if he goes too pro-Russia, he’ll be voted out.
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