Biden hits Trump for meeting with Orban
By: Alex Gangitano (The Hill)
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President Biden slammed former President Trump for meeting with Hungarian premier Viktor Orban, highlighting his major campaign platform that he is running to preserve democracy.
"You know who he's meeting with today down at Mar-a-Lago?" Biden said at a campaign event in Pennsylvania. "Orban of Hungary, who stated flatly he doesn't think democracy works, he's looking for dictatorship."
The president added that world leaders have said to him that Trump "can't win again, because my democracy is at stake." Biden last month also claimed that nine heads of state have told him he has to win in November.
Orban visited Trump at his home in Florida and posted a photograph on Facebook of the two of them together with the caption, "Meeting with President Donald Trump. Make America great again, Mr. President!"
Trump, in a post on Truth Social, said its as an honor having the Hungarian prime minister and his daughter Flora, at his resort.
"Viktor is a Great Leader, respected all over the World," he wrote Saturday. "Hungary is a Safe Country because of his Strong Immigration Policies, and as long as he is in charge, it always will be!"
When Biden was leaving the White House for Philadelphia, he was asked if he's concerned that Trump is meeting with Orban.
"If I'm not, you should be," the president replied.
Biden has made the fight to defend democracy a top issue in this election and often on the campaign trail talks about how democracy would be at stake with another four years of Trump.
Biden and Trump both head to Georgia on Saturday to campaign — dueling trips that mark the ramp up of general election campaigning after Super Tuesday and the president's State of the Union address.
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What do our conservatives think of Trump playing footsie with people like Viktor Orban ? it doesn't seem to get talked about much.
Not a problem. Didn't he just approve of Sweden joining NATO? And Trump is trying to restore our damaged democracy by running again
What do liberals think of Biden playing financial footsie with the Xi Jinping and other Chinese leaders?
lol.
I don't think Trump should be meeting with Orban right now, at the very least not behind closed doors. Doesn't that put him in potential conflict of the Logan Act?
Gawd, for a Politician with 50 years experience Biden sure is dim. Or his puppet masters are.
“Diplomacy” with someone of like mind isn’t Diplomacy at all. It’s just a meeting. Diplomacy is meeting with someone NOT of like mind and trying to find some common ground.
FDR worked with Stalin, Nixon met with Mao …..
If you're trying to suggest that trump is attempting to find common ground with Orban, give it a rest. They found common ground quite a while ago. Trump has repeatedly said he admires Orban, who is a semi dictator in Hungary.
FDR and Nixon were President of the US and Stalin and Mao were heads of their countries so it would make sense to meet to further whatever agenda their respective countries had.
Trump is an ex-president with no power over any US policy and Orban is a Putin supporter, trying to compare them is nonsense.
How can that be? The stupid bastard of a president and liberal jackasses on TV said trump killed the Senate border bill.
Trump has power or a spell over his followers, he has no power in the government of the US.
If they dumb bastards decided to follow Trump's ''order'' to flush the bill so he could deal with it if he wins the presidency then they are really incompetent jerks.
I would say there is no if about it