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Trump shares CPAC Hungary platform with notorious racist and antisemite
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/21/trump-shares-cpac-hungary-platform-racist-antisemite
Donald Trump is shown on screen speaking via a videolink at the CPAC conference in
Budapest, Hungary, on Friday. Photograph: Szilárd Koszticsák/EPA
A notorious Hungarian racist who has called Jews “stinking excrement”, referred to Roma as
“animals” and used racial epithets to describe Black people, was a featured speaker at a major
gathering of US Republicans in Budapest.
Zsolt Bayer took the stage at the second day of the Conservative Political Action Conference
(CPAC) Hungary, a convention that also featured speeches from Donald Trump, Fox News host
Tucker Carlson, and Trump’s former White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows.
The last featured speaker of the conference was Jack Posobiec, a far-right US blogger who has
used antisemitic symbols and promoted the fabricated “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory smearing
prominent Democrats as pedophiles.
Bayer, a television talkshow host in Hungary, has been widely denounced for his racism. During the
2020 Black Lives Matter protests, he wrote on his blog: “Is this the future? Kissing the dirty boots of fucking
[racist epithet] and smiling at them? Being happy about this? Because otherwise they’ll kill you or beat you up?”
In 2011, he used the phrase “stinking excrement” to refer generically to Jews in England, and in 2013
wrote: “a significant part of the Roma are unfit for coexistence. They are not fit to live among people.
These Roma are animals and they behave like animals.”
When he was awarded the Hungarian order of merit in 2016 by the country’s nationalist prime minister,
Viktor Orbán, the star speaker on the first day of CPAC Hungary on Thursday, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum
protested, saying it “reflects the longstanding refusal of the leadership of Hungary’s ruling Fidesz party to distance
itself from Bayer, in spite of Bayer’s repeated pattern of racist, xenophobic, antisemitic, and anti-Roma incitement”.