Government official: Trump assassination attempt facet of political culture of incitement

He said liberal politicians in Brussels were saying day in, day out that once the right-wing came to power democracy was doomed.

“All extremists find this kind of rhetoric as pretext: to prevent evil, all means are justified,” he added.

This should not become part of the political culture, he said. Criticism was okay, he said, but human dignity was vital, he added.

Orban said the democratic will in Hungary, Europe and America showed that “people don’t accept various liberal pro-war, migration policies.”

During dinner with Donald Trump in Florida they agreed that American politics had become “hardened for good”, he said.

It was clear, he insisted, that the West thought of itself as being in a war with Russia “and in times of war all means are permitted”. So those who speak against the war were seen as internal enemies, he added.

This attitude, he said, was typical of the Western press and put Hungary in the cross-hairs, too. “Hungary must be preserved as an island of peace and these extreme attitudes must be kept outside the country’s borders.”

Orban said the warring parties needed potential mediators to map a route to peace, and China and Turkiye appeared to be committed in this direction. But “the liberal American leadership” and their European allies were “stuck” in their war strategy.

He said Trump had made it clear, on the other hand, that he would solve the issue alone. “But Europe must act in the meantime, which is why the Hungarian prime minister wrote a report for Brussels and has proposed a strategic change of direction,” he said.

He said that while America was mired internal political crises, Europe could take their fate into their own hands and act as peace mediators.