Mike Pompeo to Huddle With Anti-Semite's Envoy
State Department officials are fucking disgusted by Pompeos decision to meet with the foreign minister from Hungarys Putin-friendly, Jew-baiting, Islamophobic regime.
SPENCER ACKERMAN
05.29.18 8:00 PM ET
Viktor Orban won reelection as Hungarys prime minister last month through a blood-and-soil campaign that married anti-Semitism with Islamophobia. Donald Trumps secretary of state is about to reverse years of U.S. policy and receive Orbans chief diplomat at Foggy Bottom.
Current and former State Department officials expressed alarm that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is giving facetime to an envoy for the demagogic and authoritarian Orban, who also happens to be Vladimir Putins best European friend.
Im fucking disgusted, said a State Department official speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the press. The official considered Pompeo cozying up to individuals like Orban part of a broader pattern of the Trump administration ignoring human-rights abuses and democratic backsliding.
Peter Szijjarto, the Hungarian foreign minister, has been attempting to make direct contact with senior Trump administration officials since Trumps election, but has gotten pawned off on low-level officials or bundled together at multilateral conferences.
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