Hungarian PM: US Money Used to Overthrow Governments

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said President Donald Trump's recent revelation about U.S. foreign aid shows that the money was used as "a tool of political influence" to overthrow foreign governments.

"The US president has decided to reveal who received money and how much was allocated by various government agencies in recent years. It turned out that the liberal world elite used the budget and the US government to pursue their financial and ideological goals with American involvement worldwide," Orban wrote on his Facebook page, according to state-owned Russian media outlet TASS.

"It was supposed to be assistance, but in reality, it was a tool of political influence. On one hand, they received money from Soros foundations, and on the other, from the official US state budget. They used these funds to finance activities aimed at destabilizing society, promoting immigration, undermining the institution of the family, and spreading gender ideology worldwide."

According to Orban, the money was funneled to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and used to support opposition media outlets.

"All of this reinforced the left's power," he said. "All of them received this money with the aim of overthrowing the government."

Orban had previously said the Hungarian government would not permit foreign money to be used for political purposes in his country and said action would be taken against "foreign agents" who chose to use funds in that manner, TASS reported.

Orban welcomed Trump's decision to shut down the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which was the vehicle through which U.S. foreign aid flowed.

Catharine O'Neill Gillihan, a former USAID White House liaison in Trump's first administration, told Newsmax on Saturday that some of the expenditures USAID funded were "egregious," including money for sex change operations and transgender comic books, among others.

Gillihan said that while she was working in Washington, people from other countries were coming to her office "begging us to stop this stuff."

"[They were] saying, 'This is not in alignment with our values as a country, as a nation,'" she said. "Here your government is spending millions and millions of dollars to try to destroy our cultures. And we're not OK with that.'"

Gillihan added that most of those countries did not have the resources to fight back.

"It's a great day to hear that a lot of this funding is stopping," she told Newsmax. "I think a lot of these countries around the world are going to be very happy."