Who invited the son of Donald Trump to Romania
On April 28, six days before the Romanian presidential election, Donald Trump Jr. is expected to arrive in Sofia with a flight from Sofia. The visit is part of the tour of the eldest son of the US president in Eastern Europe with stops in Serbia, Romania, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Bulgaria.
According to preliminary reports, the focus of this tour will be the economic cooperation and consolidation of transatlantic conservative networks. « Bloomberg » and « Politico » added that Trump
The younger strives to encourage her family’s economic ties in the region.
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Romania is not expected to have meetings with political leaders unlike Hungary, where Trump talks with Foreign Minister Peter Siarto as part of the preparation of the US -Hungary bilateral trade agreement. Last month, Trump Jr. visited Belgrade and met with President Alexander Vucic. An agreement was signed in the Serbian capital to build a hotel on the site of the former headquarters of the Yugoslav army.
Despite claiming that a visit to Romania is not political in nature, there are concerns in Bucharest that it could be intended to influence the upcoming elections.
Romanian media recall that last December Trump Jr. called the cancellation of the presidential election « another sorostiles-marxist attempt to manipulate the election result and deny people’s will. » In the same message, the son of the US president left no doubt that he was supporting the nationalist with pro -Russian discourse Kalin George, saying that he was sure that Elena Laskoni, his countered second round, would have lost.
Georgesko will not participate in the repetition of the presidential election on May 4 and 18 (due to the rejection of his candidacy from the Central Election Bureau) now for the favor of the new American
The administration is fighting two sovereignt candidates: nationalist George Simion and former Prime Minister Victor Ponta.
In early March, Victor Ponta posted a photo with Trump Jr., taken during his meeting with Serbian president in Belgrade, and announced for the first time that he is also expected to visit Bucharest.
Why Victor Ponta and Who is Sebastian Gitza
Victor Ponta’s relationship with Serbia and President Vucic has long been over and passes through their mutual friend, oligarch Sebastian Gitza – Media Magno, who escaped from Romanian justice in Belgrade in 2016. Romania TV, continues today to broadcast the uninterrupted in the northern one Ponta.
- Both Ponta and Gitz are initially related to the ultra-conservative circles in the Social Democratic Party (PSD), the heir to the Romanian Communist Party, since Ponta was chairman of the Party (2010-2015) and Prime Minister (2012-2015).
- They are also close to the next party chairman, Liviu Dragnya (2015-2019), at which many attempts were made to gain control of justice, and the Corruption Directorate (DNA) was under pressure.
- The public discourse and government policies in Romania at that time were almost no different than those of Victor Orban – extreme nationalism, antisorosism, disregard for ethnic and sexual minorities, the fight against the independence of justice, the control of all levers in the state, etc.
- Gitza’s television was a major propaganda rour of the ruling throughout the Dragnya period.
Accused of corruption by DNA, in 2016 Sebastian Gitza escaped Romanian justice in Serbia with his friend Alexander Vucic. Serbia refused to extradite him and gave him political asylum. From Belgrade, Gitza made a number of reports against the then chairwoman of the Directorate of Laura Kodrosa-Koveshi. Again from Belgrade, in 2019, Gitza threatened the Romanians protesters in the center of Bucharest against corruption and against attempts to seize justice.
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One of the propaganda peaks of his television, which some call the Gitsatv, was the accusation that the tragedy with the dozens of burned -up young people at the Music Club « team » (led to the resignation of Prime Minister Ponta, accused that the corrupt state governed by him had led to misfortune) was actually a conspiracy.
| Born in 1978, Sebastian Gitza, he has accumulated a colossal wealth for Romania (over 100 million euros) before he is 30 years old in classical for our latitudes scheme: a business with the state assisted by its relations with the secret services. His IT company ASESOFT sells services to state institutions, and other companies that want lobbying for contracts with the state pass through Gitz, to whom 12.5% of the won orders are giving. |
Krin Antonescu, one of the other candidates for Romania’s president in the May elections, describes Gitz’s connections with the secret services back in 2013. Then Antonescu is a political ally of Ponta, but he is not restrained to make his astonishment attacked by the television of his friend’s friend. Antonescu describes Gitz as follows:
| « In PSD – or in any case in the circle of Victor Ponta – is the deputy Sebastian Gitza, who boasts as a kind of representative of the services in political and economic life. This does not mean that the services have appointed him as one. » |
Another of today’s presidential candidates, George Simion, also testifies that the oligarch is a representative of one of the circles in the services: « Gitza has been a man of the services for a long time, until different groups in them have quarreled. »
After the start of Russian aggression against Ukraine, Romania TV has repeatedly spread narratives close to those of the Kremlin and invited guests known for its exhaust position.
- Among them is, for example, Marian Tauber, deputy chairman of the pro-Russian oligarch Party Ilan Shore in Moldova, organized the protests in Chisinau, which President Maya Sandu declared organized by Moscow.
- This is also one of the televisions that gave the tribune the theses on the influence of George Soros in Romanian and international politics, even during the time of Liviu Dragnya.
- However, television publicly denies being on the Kremlin’s side. As well as Ponta himself in his campaign.
Today, the group close to Ponta and Gitz, who are no longer in PSD, wants to return to the top of the country, using Trumpist discourse and trying to get closer to the new administration in Washington. Some analysts in Bucharest are afraid that when successful, Ponta may also claim to return to the Societymocratic Party, which still has close circles.
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Meanwhile, Gitz’s business is also thriving in Serbian politics.
According to an investigation by Public Record, a company related to the Romanian oligarch has delivered over one million election agitation materials to the ruling Serbian Progressive Party. Ponta’s connections with Serbia are also personal. During the current election campaign, Victor Ponta himself presented himself as « Belgrade’s Savior from the Floods » in 2014. According to him, as Prime Minister, without the knowledge of other institutions and after a personal request from Vucic, Ponta ordered the opening of the Danube to the river.
| The scandal in this case is that the result of this solution is dozens of Romanian villages below along the river. Ponta receives Serbian citizenship in return. According to Romanian analysts, it is very likely that Ponta needed Serbian citizenship to ensure a place where to escape from Romanian justice in case of need, as his friend Gitz does two years later. |
After these confessions, Ponta’s rating has fallen significantly, but he still has a theoretical chance of qualifying for the runoff. However, the December elections and George’s unexpected rise have shown that there is no complete confidence in sociological forecasts.
Ponta probably hopes that pressure in his favor by Washington and a suitable social media campaign, like George’s November, could unexpectedly increase support for him.
Stilian Deyanov is an independent journalist in Bucharest. The article is specifically for Diary.
