Mike Pompeo to Huddle With Anti-Semite's Envoy

[DonViejo]

State Department officials are ‘fucking disgusted’ by Pompeo’s decision to meet with the foreign minister from Hungary’s Putin-friendly, Jew-baiting, Islamophobic regime.

SPENCER ACKERMAN
05.29.18 8:00 PM ET

Viktor Orban won reelection as Hungary’s prime minister last month through a blood-and-soil campaign that married anti-Semitism with Islamophobia. Donald Trump’s secretary of state is about to reverse years of U.S. policy and receive Orban’s 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 Putin’s best European friend.

“I’m 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 Trump’s election, but has gotten pawned off on low-level officials or bundled together at multilateral conferences.

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[Behind the Aegis]

1. It's what they do.

Since Orban is more a Jew-hater than an Islamophobe, this doesn't qualify as "news" to most.