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Trump denies offering Orbán Argentina-style ‘financial shield’

US president says Hungarian PM ‘certainly asked for’ protection arrangement

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Donald Trump
Gage Skidmore (https://bit.ly/3IYY8Dm)

Donald Trump has denied offering Hungary’s central bank a swap line-like arrangement.

The US president told Politico today (December 9) that although Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orbán had “certainly asked for” a “financial shield”, Trump had not promised him such an arrangement.

The statement directly contradicts Orbán’s assertion on November 9 that he and Trump had agreed to “establish new forms of American and Hungarian financial co-operation” and that negotiations were “ongoing and will

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