President Donald Trump met with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on May 13, a conversation that primed Trump to be hostile to and suspicious of Ukraine.
John Bolton, former national security adviser, and Fiona Hill, former NSC director for Eurasian and Russian affairs, urged Trump not to take the meeting, but were shouted down by acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney, according to the New York Times.
During the meeting, Trump’s perspective on Ukraine was molded by Orban who espouses a dislike of the country shared by Rudy Giuliani and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Just days later, Trump met with the returning U.S. delegation from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s inauguration and asserted that the Ukrainians were “terrible people.”
Given 15 minutes alone with Trump you could convince him John F Kennedy was running the world from a deep bunker in Roswell, NM.
From the NYTs article:
Apparently Orban is wondering why only Putin is allowed to carve up Ukrainian territory for himself?
The idea that POTUS responds to whoever can shout down the others in the discussion is just one more sign of how low we have sunk. Imagine your child’s principal at school making decisions that way. You would demand that the school board fire that person. This is simply not the way that reasonable people function. And since we know that believe anyone who flatters him, we can assume that the PM of Hungary simply told him that he was the best President that we have ever had, or promised to hold his annual retreat at Doral, or something equally absurd.
He is a clear and present danger.
The headline here presumes that Trump wasn’t a tool of the Russians before he was even elected President. It’s perfectly reasonable to assume that Orban was merely communicating Putin’s latest instruction to Trump during their private meeting.
So terrible that Putin wants to emulate Stalin and kill off a few million Ukrainians?