Sunday, May 11, 2025

Trump reverses another Biden decision

Trump Finally Reverses Biden’s Travel Ban on Prominent Soros Critic

An outspoken opponent of Hungarian American megadonor George Soros can finally visit the United States after the Biden administration banned him in 2021, accusing him of corruption.

Sali Berisha, former prime minister of Albania and head of the Albanian opposition party in an election Sunday, accused Soros and current Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama of conspiring with Secretary of State Antony Blinken to prevent him from visiting the U.S. When then-Rep.

Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., pressed Blinken for evidence of Berisha’s alleged corruption, the State Department stonewalled him, Zeldin said.

This week, a State Department representative said Berisha could come to the U.S. “We routinely grant waivers to facilitate designated individuals’ travel to the U.S. consistent with international obligations and our national interests,” the representative told Axios reporter Marc Caputo.

“As such, we won’t let our foreign policy interests or relationship with Albania be held hostage by politicized Biden-era decisions.

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