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Trump denies pledging Argentina-style bailout for Hungary’s embattled Orbán
U.S. President Donald Trump told POLITICO he did not offer a financial lifeline to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, contradicting his longtime ally’s claims that the two struck a deal. Orbán traveled to Washington last month to meet the American leader and said after the visit that the U.S. had agreed to provide Budapest with a “financial shield.” “No, I didn’t promise him, but he certainly asked for it,” Trump said in an interview with POLITICO’s Dasha Burns for a special episode of The Conversation, which aired Tuesday. When pressed on whether Budapest could ultimately receive the rescue ... (full story)
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