About this episode
The episode discusses the implications of foreign influence in American politics, focusing on Hungary's Orban regime and features an interview with Peter Hidas about the 1956 Hungarian Uprising.
While Orban's gang of Kremlin-paid criminals burn proof of their crimes, the new leadership in Hungary goes after their propaganda machine and GOP allies who used Hungarian taxpayer money to fund CPAC. This is against U.S. law. If America had a real DOJ and functional Congress, all Republican officials would be investigated for being foreign agents of Hungary and therefore Russia. "Foreign governments are barred from spending money in American elections, and Americans are forbidden from soliciting or accepting it," wrote Rep. Mike Levin on Twitter (we will never call it X). "If these allegations are true, this is a direct attack on the integrity of American democracy…The American people deserve to know exactly what flowed from Orban's government into this country's political ecosystem, who was on the receiving end, and what it bought." As Gaslit Nation has long warned, Orban's regime was funneling money and instructions from Russia to MAGA world. The RussiaGate transnational crime network never stopped. The crime spree continues and has only grown stronger. We told you so!. In this week's Gaslit Nation, we're re-running our interview with Peter Hidas, who as a young student…
People in this episode
Host: Andrea Chalupa
Guest: Peter Hidas
Topics covered
- Hungarian politics
- foreign influence
- American democracy
- 1956 Uprising
- Orban regime
- propaganda
Keywords
- Orban
- Kremlin
- foreign agents
- American elections
- democracy
- propaganda
- Hungary
- RussiaGate
- 1956 Uprising
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: GOP, CPAC
Places: Hungary, Russia
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