“Some in Hungary are unhappy about our work? Why? Hm ...”— wrote the ESI chairman cynically on Twitter in response to our article on Monday. Gerald Knaus also linked a photo of Magyar Nemzet’s front page to his post. Knaus concurrently confirmed the core of our article when he tagged a slew of western journalists. It wasn’t in vain then that we described him as having “the power to maneuver the waters of the mainstream media like few others.” This time Knaus called on Armin Wolf, Austrian journalist, Maximilian Poppot, a writer at Spiegel, Patrick Kingsley, and Steven Erlanger, a New York Times correspondent, to support his social media post.

PM Orban: We’ve Been Fighting for 15 years—A Handful of Hungarian Rebels Against the Empire
The Hungarian prime minister holds his annual State of the Republic address.