Michael Weiss

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2,887 appearances 11 recordings 2 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 2 Sep

Michael Weiss’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 6 in all, peaking in Sep 2026 with 1.

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So just bringing the temperature down on some of these interactions is going to be very, very helpful.

And, you know, it means that sanctions packages will not be blocked.

The Hungarians will not shake down Brussels for subsidies.

The Hungarians will not do the bidding of the Kremlin.

And Hungarians may even have good bilateral relations with the Ukrainians.

You know, Orban, his sole campaign was, my opponent is a Ukrainian agent, and if you vote for him, it's World War III.

It is, yeah.

I mean, so vsquared.org is one of the outlets that was responsible for kind of breaking these stories about, you know, Hungarian-Russian collusion.

Xabi Panyi, who's my colleague, had to flee the country because his reporting exposing this relationship between Siarto and Lavrov

led to Orban and his government accusing Shabby of being a Ukrainian spy.

And there was an investigation open to him.

And they had already put Pegasus software on his phones.

They'd already surveilled him.

They treated him as an enemy of the people, right?

So now, you know, with one vote, this guy, the best investigative reporter in all of Hungary can return home to Budapest.

and continue to do what he does.

And, you know, he said, the first thing I plan to do is report on the new government, you know, is, I mean, I just want normal politics.

I just want to be in a normal democratic state again.

So yes, media played a big role in this.

Just to put this in American terms, and this is not a perfect analogy because the person I'm about to invoke was never a loyalist to Donald Trump.

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