Orbán says Trump was targeted for his “anti-war and pacifist” views

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Friday that both former US President Donald Trump and Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico were targeted for their “anti-war views.”

Fico was hit by four bullets in an assassination attempt in mid-May, while Trump, the Republican candidate for the US presidential election in November, survived a shooting on July 13.

Both are allies of Orbán, a right-wing nationalist in power since 2010.

“All these attacks are against anti-war and peace-loving politicians,” Orbán said in an interview with state radio. Kossuth.

“The forces in favor of war are so incited, tense, instigated and organized that they are trying to wipe out the forces in favor of peace from the stage, from the center of political life.”

Hungary’s prime minister, who earlier this month embarked on a self-proclaimed “peace mission” to Ukraine that included a meeting with Trump, said the former president survived the attack because “God has plans for him” to bring about peace.

Orbán’s foreign minister, Peter Szijjarto, has said Hungary sees a possible second term for Trump as an “opportunity for peace” in Ukraine.

Orbán said he spoke with Trump for two hours at their meeting in Florida on July 11. Friday’s interview was the first time Orbán discussed the meeting in detail.

He said they discussed a range of issues, including the economy, and that his team was helping Trump’s advisers with policy.

“We have a very good relationship with those who work behind the president in drafting his economic and foreign policy programmes,” Orbán said.

“I could say that we participated in the process of this agenda setting, there are some issues such as family policy and stopping migration where we are highly appreciated.”

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