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US ambassador accuses Hungary’s PM of using anti-LGBTQ ‘machinery of fear’
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David Pressman describes personal experience in speech condemning Viktor Orbán’s legal and rhetorical attacks
The US ambassador in Budapest has accused the government of Hungary’s far-right prime minister, Viktor Orbán, of using a “machinery of fear” to launch legal and rhetorical attacks on the LGBTQ community.
“Fear is something those who seek to undermine democracy trade on, and their currency is too often you and your families,” David Pressman said at a family Pride event at the ambassador’s residence.
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