Palmer Report fully vindicated for its earlier reporting on Hungary’s role in the Trump-Russia scandal

| 8:39 pm EST November 20, 2017
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Seven months ago, Hungarian political dissident Dr. András Göllner laid out a sweeping evidence-based argument that the epicenter of the Trump-Russia scandal was in Budapest, Hungary. Palmer Report sought to bring immediate attention to Dr. Göllner’s premise, but most of the mainstream media completely ignored him, and a few within the mainstream media seized the opportunity to falsely accuse Palmer Report of being “fake news” for even touching the Hungary storyline. Now the Hungary connections are being fully vindicated by the mainstream media itself.

ABC News is reporting that Donald Trump campaign adviser Carter Page held “high-level foreign policy meetings with Hungarian officials before the 2016 presidential election” and presented himself as representing the Trump campaign during these meetings (link). Further, ABC News says that Congress is investigating these meetings between Page and Hungarian officials. These meetings took place in Budapest. In other words, András Göllner was correct back in April, and Palmer Report was fully justified in trying to bring attention to it. More importantly, let’s take a look at what Göllner’s research can tell us about what else the Budapest connection means for the Trump-Russia scandal.

Göllner pointed to the six trips which Donald Trump campaign adviser J.D. Gordon took to Budapest (source, additional source), where he publicly took positions on Ukraine that were in line with the Kremlin. Gordon has already publicly admitted that he was part of the Trump campaign team who met with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak at the Republican National Convention (source), which resulted in the Republican Party platform being changed to reflect the Kremlin’s position on Ukraine.

Göllner also pointed to current Donald Trump White House adviser Sebastian Gorka, who had documented close ties to far-right extremist groups when he lived in Hungary. But the core of his premise is that the Trump-Russia collusion all had Arthur Finkelstein as the centerpiece, with Finkelstein’s client Orbán having given free reign to Putin to use Budapest as a de facto headquarters for his collusion with the Trump Campaign. Although it’s received little U.S. media attention, the government of Hungary has become essentially an arm of the Kremlin. You can read Dr. Göllener’s research here. No word on when the mainstream media will catch up with the rest of the Budapest connection.