Daniel Mcadams - Congress Members Urge Trump To Meddle Inwards Hungary's Elections

One of the loudest voices screaming "Russia is meddling inward our democracy!" has been Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH). Last twelvemonth she signed a letter to the Speaker of the House demanding that Homeland Security in addition to the FBI brief Congress on "the Russian assail on 21 states' voting systems" (a accuse since disproven). The alphabetic lineament complained that "when a sovereign nation attempts to meddle inward our elections, it is an assail on our country."

This calendar week Rep. Kaptur (and 22 Democrat colleagues) sent a letter to President Trump's Assistant Secretary of State for Europe, Wess Mitchell, demanding the reinstatement of a cancelled State Department programme to post $700,000 to finance anti-government stories inward Hungary's media inward advance of the upcoming 2019 local elections inward that country.

"Supporting an independent media inward Republic of Hungary should hold out a priority" for the United States, the Congressional alphabetic lineament says. 

Do Kaptur in addition to her Capitol Hill colleagues non sympathize the basic fact that when a unusual regime funds a sector of approximately other country's media, that media tin no longer hold out considered "independent"? 

Ron Paul Institute

daniel mcadams - Congress Members Urge Trump to Meddle inward Hungary's Elections