Hungary's Orban says Trump was attacked for 'anti-war' views

19/7/2024 16:41

        Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday that former U.S. President Donald Trump and Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico were both attacked for their "anti-war views".
        
        Fico was hit by four bullets in an assassination attempt in mid-May while Trump, the Republican party's nominee for the November presidential vote, survived a July 13 shooting.
        
        Both are allies of Orban, a right-wing nationalist in power since 2010.
        
        "All these attacks are against anti-war, pro-peace politicians," Orban said in an interview with state-owned Kossuth radio station.
        
        "Pro-war forces are so stirred up, tense, abetted and organised that they are trying to clean out the pro-peace forces from the stage, from the centre of political life."
        
        The Hungarian prime minister, who went on a self-styled Ukraine "peace mission" earlier this month that included a meeting with Trump, said that the former president survived the attack because "God has plans with him" to advance peace.