Trump set for another playdate with Hungary's authoritarian leader, Viktor Orban

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : Trump gushed.
47% : In March of this year, Trump claimed "there's nobody that's better, smarter or a better leader than Viktor Orban," going on to call him "fantastic" and boasting about his authoritarian style.
38% : Trump, of course, said in February that he would encourage Russia to "do whatever the hell they want" to NATO countries that don't pay into the group what he thinks they should -- a theme he has returned to repeatedly (as my colleague Steve Benen wrote in 2020, Trump "still doesn't fully understand the basics of the alliance's finances").
36% : Trump and his followers have openly celebrated Orban's illiberal ways over the last few years, with right-wing activists going so far as to host a Conservative Political Action Conference event in Hungary in 2022.
36% : And after their meeting earlier this year, Orban said that Trump told him that if he's elected president, he won't give "a penny" to Ukraine, essentially allowing Russia to continue its deadly power grab.
31% : In many ways, he has done to his country what Trump and his allies aspire to accomplish in the United States.Which apparently includes turning Hungary into Russian President Vladimir Putin's proxy.
19% : Trump, on the other hand, will have admitted he barely knew what NATO was before he became president and will have met with one of the group's most unreliable members in Orban.

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