Donald Trump is committed to the success of Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán because his leadership is crucial for US national interests, the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, has said. ‘President Trump is deeply committed to your success, because your success is our success,’ Rubio said, standing next to Orbán at a joint press conference in Budapest. Taking questions from journalists, Rubio also said that the US seemed to be the ‘only nation on Earth’ that can get Ukrainian and Russian representatives ‘to the table to talk’ to try to bring an end to the war
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Donald Trump is committed to the success of Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán because his leadership is crucial for US national interests, the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, has said. ‘President Trump is deeply committed to your success, because your success is our success,’ Rubio said, standing next to Orbán at a joint press conference in Budapest. Taking questions from journalists, Rubio also said that the US seemed to be the ‘only nation on Earth’ that can get Ukrainian and Russian representatives ‘to the table to talk’ to try to bring an end to the war
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