As we reported, Donald Trump won big on the so-called ‘Super Tuesday,’ the day in the US where many states hold their primary elections. President Trump took 14 out of 15 states up for grabs. As a result, Former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley dropped out of the race, making President Trump the GOP’s presumptive nominee. Dan Schneider, president of the special interest group MRC Free Speech America took the stage at the Center for Fundamental Rights’ We Win, They Lose — America’s Choice event on Wednesday, 6 March. The discussion was moderated by Zoltán Koskovics, a geopolitical analyst at the Center.
Mr Schneider began by talking about President Biden, who he believes is not the one ‘functioning as president,’ he is just ‘the face’ of the presidency. He also stated that President Biden will be pressured to step down from the nomination if his party believes he cannot win in November, for which there is still a chance of happening in the speaker’s opinion.
However, the Democrats are not in a good position to look for a replacement. Vice President Kamala Harris, the most obvious choice, is even less popular than President Biden according to polling data, the speaker pointed out. He also added that the peculiar situation in the US right now is that
‘the two least popular politicians in the country are the President and the Vice President’.
As for the outgoing GOP challenger to Trump, Nikki Haley, Mr Schneider somewhat flippantly said that it is actually an ‘embarrassment’ for her to win the liberal-progressive strongholds of Washington, D.C. and Vermont. The topic of conversation was then quickly moved to the efforts to remove Donald Trump from the ballot in certain states, which was shut down by the Supreme Court earlier this week in a unanimous, 9–0 decision.
As Mr Schneider pointed out, this process went completely against the ideals of the rule of law, as Donald Trump was denied his right to due process. He was never even charged with insurrection even in the Washington case, let alone convicted of it. Yet ‘low-level political appointees’ tried to remove him from the ballot for being an insurrectionist…
He went on to say that the only criminal charges of the many against President Trump that have any legal merit are the ones related to mishandling classified information. However, it is actually common for Presidents to keep some classified documents in their private residences from their times in office: even Joe Biden did so after leaving the Vice Presidency, yet he was never charged. Mr Schneider also opined that we would not see a criminal trial of Donald Trump before the election, as by the time the Supreme Court hands down its ruling on his immunity case, there would be no time to put him on trial before 5 November.
The speaker also talked about the unholy alliance between leftist politicians and the mainstream media, which holds true for both the United States and Europe in his opinion. He described this relationship with the metaphor ‘a choir without a conductor’. As in, he does not believe that members of the media and certain politicians have secret meetings to coordinate. Rather, they ‘have the same goals,’ and thus can follow each other’s rhythm without any formal coordination.
This is manifested in, he continued, in the coverage of prominent foreign right-wing politicians in American media, such as Prime Minister Viktor Orbán of Hungary, Former President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil, prospective Prime Minister Geert Wilders of the Netherlands, and even Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy.
About the upcoming meeting between PM Orbán and President Trump, the speaker told the audience that President Trump takes some leadership advice from Orbán, who could teach him that real strength comes from the support of the people.
Mr Schneider also talked about CPAC —
the Hungary event of which will be held for the third time this April.
Mr Schneider is involved in the organization of these events. He recalled that it was Japan that first approached the American organizers with the intention of holding one in their country. However, the first European nation to host CPAC was Hungary. As the speaker told the audience, there were many candidate countries, but CPAC wanted to choose the one where the event would have the most impact.
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