This has left the president's national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, in the awkward position of refusing to say whether Orbán is a dictator. “I am not speaking on behalf of the Biden campaign,” he told a news conference. “Such questions should be directed to the campaign.” He expressed “deep concern about Hungary's attack on our democratic institutions.”
Heather A. Conley, president of the German Marshall Fund, a democracy-promoting research organization, said Mr. Orbán attended the Conservative Political Action Conference and injected himself into American politics after the Marshall-A-Marshall Declaration. he pointed out. Lago said that if Trump returned to power, “it would be good for Hungary.”
“Tragically, Hungary has become both a foreign policy and electoral campaign issue,” she said. Still, she added, calling Mr. Orbán a dictator has specific implications for her foreign policy. “If a NATO member, head of state or government is declared a 'dictator', that country will be placed in a special penalty box until the end of the dictatorship,” she said. He spoke while remembering the military regime that ruled the country. .
Last week's cannibalism story of the president sparked a backlash of its own. Mr. Biden was talking about his uncle's death in World War II. “He was shot down in New Guinea, but his body was never found. There were really a lot of cannibals in that part of New Guinea,” he said at one point.
Never mind that this story doesn't even seem true. According to Pentagon records, his uncle, 2nd Lt. Ambrose J. Finnegan, was a passenger on a military plane that crashed on May 14, 1944, when its engine failed and crashed off the north coast of the Pacific Ocean in what was then the territory of New Guinea. Ta. he failed. Mr. Finnegan and two of his crew members are missing and presumed dead, but reports do not indicate that the plane was shot down, much less that they encountered cannibals. Not shown.