“I believe the state should never have financed them in the first place, it was a crime,” Magyar continued. “Mixing party financing with government spending from the state budget is, in my view, a criminal offense, and this will have to be investigated by the future authorities, including the National Office for the Recovery and Protection of Public Assets, since those budgetary funds were not meant to finance party events.”

“CPAC is welcome to come to Budapest, very welcome, but it should not be financed with Hungarian taxpayers’ money,” Magyar added, saying that Orbán and his party were free to fund it themselves if they wanted.

Several U.S. political commentators remarked on this revelation that Orbán’s government had been funding CPAC, including Reason reporter Billy Binion, who pointed out that meant that other American influencers and organizations may very well have been getting paid by the Hungarian government too, “which may explain why so many were shilling for one of the most corrupt politicians living today.”

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    Remember folks Super PAC were designed specifically so donations could be anonymous and untraceable so as to allow foreign interference and conservatives to could get the vapors when this fact is pointed out and shared

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    Zero chance that VP Vance didn’t know that CPAC funding was coming from Hungary. Explains that trip of his exactly

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    Does…does this mean Hungary paid for newly Widowed Erika Kirk to take the stage flanked by fireworks with a giant smile on her face while she was supposedly grieving?

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    That last paragraph. Like…yeah. We already know loads of top ones were on Russian payroll.

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    Good call. When you dethrone one of these conservative bastards you have to follow up and finish them off or you seed your own downfall. Americans need to learn this.

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    The fascists learned from the Communist International and emulating it. The mistake of the fascists in the past was the excessive tribalist mentality. The Axis never really coordinated but instead made alliances of convenience depending on the heat of the moment.