Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Viktor Orbán, George Soros, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson Natalia Dueholm
December 5, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — The U.S. State Department’s $700,000 grant to Hungarian media before upcoming elections shocked the government in Budapest, prompting a diplomatic conflict between the NATO allies. The grant is seen by many as taking sides in a private war waged by the Hungarian-born, anti-Trump American billionaire George Soros against the popular conservative government of pro-Trump Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
Orban has been fighting massive negative influence of Soros in Hungary through Soros’s financing of the Central European University and 60-plus other groups in the country. Orbán has called Soros a “large-bodied predator.”
LifeSite previously reported that the Hungarian government called these Soros-backed groups “self-styled human rights organizations which engage in political activity but which have no political legitimacy, and whose activities are in sharp opposition to the views of the majority of Hungarians.”
The State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL) recently announced the grant as a funding opportunity to support “objective media in Hungary.” DRL’s mission is “promoting democracy and protecting human rights globally.” DRL also states that it “typically
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