Trump official helped secure US visa for fugitive Polish minister
Landau directed State Department officials to approve the visa as a national security issue, enabling Ziobro to leave Hungary despite 26 charges in Poland.
- U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau instructed senior State Department officials to issue a visa for former Polish Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro, allowing him to flee from Hungary to the United States.
- Poland is seeking to prosecute Ziobro on 26 charges stemming from alleged misuse of money from the Justice Fund; he denies wrongdoing, asserting political targeting by the ruling coalition.
- Landau justified the visa's urgency by presenting the matter as a "national security issue," enabling Ziobro to secure entry before Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar assumed office on May 9.
- The Polish Foreign Ministry told Reuters last week that Warsaw would ask Washington and Budapest for "the legal and factual basis" under which Ziobro was able to leave Hungary.
- Amid these tensions, the Pentagon last week canceled the deployment of 4,000 U.S. troops to Poland, while President Donald Trump and his administration claim European conservatives are often targeted by "lawfare.
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