"Trump also called on European leaders to show more respect to the Hungarian prime minister, who has clashed repeatedly with fellow EU heads of government over issues of migration, democracy and rule of law. I think they should respect Hungary and respect this leader very, very strongly because he's been right on immigration, Trump said as he sat next to Orban at the White House on Friday."
"Hungary has said it wanted an exemption from the sanctions because it claims to have no other viable source for the oil. Asked whether he could exempt Hungary from secondary sanctions, Trump said: We're looking at it because it's very difficult for him to get the oil and gas from other areas. It's a big country, but they don't have sea, he said. They don't have the ports. And so they have a difficult problem."
Donald Trump suggested he could exempt Hungary from sanctions on importing oil from Russia while praising Viktor Orban's hardline stance on immigration. Trump urged European leaders to show more respect to Orban and described him as right on immigration. Orban seeks a summit between Trump and Russia's Vladimir Putin that he claims could end the war in Ukraine, while EU critics call him the Kremlin's Trojan horse. The meeting tested White House sanctions on Rosneft and Lukoil; Hungary requested an exemption citing no viable oil alternatives and reportedly offered to buy US liquefied natural gas and nuclear fuel as incentives.
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