Leila Fadel

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I'm actually sitting right outside my hotel. I've been watching people all morning head out with their badges and go over to the CPAC gathering that just started.

I'm actually sitting right outside my hotel. I've been watching people all morning head out with their badges and go over to the CPAC gathering that just started.

I'm actually sitting right outside my hotel. I've been watching people all morning head out with their badges and go over to the CPAC gathering that just started.

Yeah, so Hungary was really the first place CPAC ever hosted a gathering in Europe because Hungary invited them. And this year, Poland hosted a CPAC earlier this week where we saw Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speak and urge polls to vote for the right-wing nationalists running in a tight presidential election there in just a few days.

Yeah, so Hungary was really the first place CPAC ever hosted a gathering in Europe because Hungary invited them. And this year, Poland hosted a CPAC earlier this week where we saw Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speak and urge polls to vote for the right-wing nationalists running in a tight presidential election there in just a few days.

Yeah, so Hungary was really the first place CPAC ever hosted a gathering in Europe because Hungary invited them. And this year, Poland hosted a CPAC earlier this week where we saw Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speak and urge polls to vote for the right-wing nationalists running in a tight presidential election there in just a few days.

And one of CPAC's goals is really to keep growing its global footprint. And here in Hungary, we're going to hear from a hodgepodge of speakers. One of the minds behind Trump's child separation policy back in 2017, Chad Wolf. John Eastman, a conservative lawyer who crafted much of Trump's strategy to overturn the 2020 election results.

And one of CPAC's goals is really to keep growing its global footprint. And here in Hungary, we're going to hear from a hodgepodge of speakers. One of the minds behind Trump's child separation policy back in 2017, Chad Wolf. John Eastman, a conservative lawyer who crafted much of Trump's strategy to overturn the 2020 election results.

And one of CPAC's goals is really to keep growing its global footprint. And here in Hungary, we're going to hear from a hodgepodge of speakers. One of the minds behind Trump's child separation policy back in 2017, Chad Wolf. John Eastman, a conservative lawyer who crafted much of Trump's strategy to overturn the 2020 election results.

So those are the types of voices that are going to be on the stage in the next two days.

So those are the types of voices that are going to be on the stage in the next two days.

So those are the types of voices that are going to be on the stage in the next two days.

Yeah, I met up with the U.S. chairman of CPEC, Matt Schlapp, to talk about the deepening alliances between the MAGA movement, Orban's Fidesz party in Hungary, and other right-wing movements in Europe. And I asked that, especially given that the European Union is withholding billions of dollars allocated for Hungary right now over policies they deem anti-democratic. One of the recent moves...

Yeah, I met up with the U.S. chairman of CPEC, Matt Schlapp, to talk about the deepening alliances between the MAGA movement, Orban's Fidesz party in Hungary, and other right-wing movements in Europe. And I asked that, especially given that the European Union is withholding billions of dollars allocated for Hungary right now over policies they deem anti-democratic. One of the recent moves...

Yeah, I met up with the U.S. chairman of CPEC, Matt Schlapp, to talk about the deepening alliances between the MAGA movement, Orban's Fidesz party in Hungary, and other right-wing movements in Europe. And I asked that, especially given that the European Union is withholding billions of dollars allocated for Hungary right now over policies they deem anti-democratic. One of the recent moves...

Was the country effectively banning upcoming pride celebrations? Schlapp says what's uniting them in part is a feeling that their political opponents are actually being the undemocratic ones.

Was the country effectively banning upcoming pride celebrations? Schlapp says what's uniting them in part is a feeling that their political opponents are actually being the undemocratic ones.

Was the country effectively banning upcoming pride celebrations? Schlapp says what's uniting them in part is a feeling that their political opponents are actually being the undemocratic ones.

And he's talking about, of course, before President Trump was reelected. And he said that's what populists, conservatives, and right-wing movements around the world feel. So, Viktor Orban and Trump, parallels there? Yeah, I mean, there are. They're different men, as many people have pointed out to me.