JD Vance and Viktor Orban in Budapest last week.Viktor Orban’s crushing defeat in the Hungarian elections has triggered online mockery of JD Vance.
In a highly-controversial move, the US vice-president travelled to Budapest last week to give his support to Orban, the pro-Russia, right-wing nationalist who had been his country’s prime minister for 16 years.
Confirming the Trump administration’s backing for Orban, Vance said he was there “to help him in this campaign cycle”.
However, Orban lost in a landslide to his pro-EU rival Peter Magyar when Hungarians went to the polls on Sunday.
Magyar had said the election was “a choice between East or West, propaganda or honest public discourse, corruption or clean public life”.
His victory was quickly welcomed by politicians across the EU, as well as by Read Entire Article
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