Posted on 11/22/2017 7:17:11 AM PST by Mr. Mojo
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”.
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Let me guess who promoted and pushed this guys career.
WTF! Collusion with the EU against national patriots?
Meddling in internal Hungarian politics?
That’s what it looks like. Foggy Bottom is the vilest of our sewers, and draining it appears to be a pipe dream.
Umm... Mr. President?
A little problem here...
So the State Department claims it is bad for the Russians to interfere with our politics but it’s okay for them to do it?
How outrageous. Orban is fighting for the survival of his country vs EU Muzzieland, so the US comes down on the side of Soros.
Foreign influence in domestic politics. Isn’t that what we are accusing the Russians about?
President Trump should get the money back.
Bad idea.
Save the $700,000.
Mr. Trump should stop this immediately.
Well, we now know who should be next for a “You’re fired!” discussion.
WTF is Tillerson doing over there in State? Why are there so many Obama holdovers who can screw with our policy and embarrass the President and the country?
The Hungarian patriots are very much like Trump - anti-internationalist and patriotic - and so should be SUPPORTED.
Stop this crap now! What would we say if the EU said that they were investing a similar amount in programming in the USA?
Sounds like collusion.
NWO moles running autonomous programs at State thanks to Clintons and Obama. Trump needs to get that place cleaned out.
The President needs to step in and put a stop to this.
The exact same thing that John Kerry and Hillary Clinton and most other past Secs of State have done -- promoting globalist / socialist interests while attempting to quash nationalist / conservative ones. In this particular case, Tilllerson and his Obama holdover comrades are, like you said, directly aiding international globalist criminal Soros. Infuriating, but far from surprising.
Need John Bolton
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