Is Hungary Bailing out Trump?

Orban with Graffiti.  Gabor Gasztonyi 2019.  

Hungarian Prime minister Victor Orban is flying to Donald Trump’s private residence in Mara Lago Florida next week.  Presumably, he will travel on a military jet, immune from border and customs regulations.  Trump has recently been fined over 500 million dollars in fines over illegal activities in New York state.  To file an appeal,  Trump must put 110 per cent of the fine in trust to the court.  Trump suggested he post a 100 million dollar bond instead.   This was denied by the judge involved.  He seems unlikely to have the funds to cover his appeal and will likely have to sell assets in New York or elsewhere.  He might also declare bankruptcy. 

As a former president of the United States, the fact that he is in so much financial jeopardy puts him in a state of security risk for the nation.  Having a friendly relationship with Vladimir Putin, which he has demonstrated in the past, calling him very intelligent and at one point praising his invasion of Ukraine, he is now a compromised target.  Recently, he said he would encourage Russia to invade NATO countries which do not pay their fair share in defence spending. 

Victor Orban, a close friend of Putin who acts as Putin’s Trojan Horse in Europe and operates Hungary as if it were a Mafia state, just as his friend Putin does in Russia, is possibly an intermediary in this compromise.  Putin, a former KGB agent, understands only force, violence and clandestine operations.  The most extraordinary clandestine operation in history would be to have Donald Trump secretly under the command of Russia.  If this were so, the United States would not support Ukraine in its war with Russia under the Trump administration.  He has admitted to this and presumably many of the sanctions against Russia would be removed.  Putin would be a clear winner, allowing him to move forward and seize all of Ukraine, which he believes is historically Russia itself, and encircle it within his Mafia regime.  Putin’s goal is to recover the complete territory of the old USSR and somehow assemble a new Russian Empire.  He likens himself to Peter the Great and wishes this legacy for himself.  He will stoop at nothing to attain that end. 

Lorincs Mezaros, the wealthiest man in Hungary, was originally a gas fitter and a childhood friend of Victor Orbans's.  All construction contracts in Hungary filter through his companies.  These contracts are primarily awarded without proper bidding, and much of the final work completed is of a shoddy nature with inflated pricing and riddled with corruption.  The Mezaros companies are a mechanism to steal money from the country and put it in the hands of Victor Orban and his friends and family.  The European Union considers Hungary one of the most corrupt countries in Europe.  Mezaros also owns a bank, MBH, which he obtained last year through a series of secret and clandestine manoeuvres.  Perhaps he can lend or give Donald Trump the money to post as a bond and allow him to launch his appeal.  Is there a possible direct link to Putin himself in this potentially bizarre arrangement?  Is Orban simply acting as a messenger under diplomatic guise.  We probably will never know.  But we should be cognizant of the possibilities.  Nothing should surprise us in an increasingly Mafia world. 

Sadly, the new political model for the world in our new century is not democracy but Mafia-based regimes.   Countries like Russia, Iran, China, Hungary, North Korea, and, to some extent, India are moving to this bizarre criminal structure.  It is very difficult for democratic countries to engage with other countries that rely on criminal models for their existence.  They only understand violence and power. They have no understanding of justice. 

We wonder if there are Russian gold bars on Orban’s Military aircraft when it lands in Florida. 

I would not be surprised.