Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has sold his brand of politics as conservatism. But what's really happening there is corruption benefitting oligarchs, says David Pressman, former U.S. ambassador to Hungary.

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U.S. conservatives have looked to Hungary's Viktor Orbán as an inspiration for a right-wing America, and the prime minister has become a close ally of President Donald Trump.

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NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with David Pressman, former U.S. ambassador to Hungary, about that country's democratic decay under Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has become an icon for the global conservative movement that Donald Trump has attached himself to, and is a regular visitor to Trump's headquarters at

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Hungary is facing the latest in a series of missed budget targets after the announcement of pre-election tax breaks by Prime Minister Viktor Orban last weekend.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has sold his brand of politics as conservatism. But what's really happening there is corruption benefitting oligarchs, says David Pressman, former U.S. ambassador to Hungary.