Honour for Bystron: USA celebrate AfD (German Patriotic Party)
Petr Bystron, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the German Bundestag, received the prestigious "Eagle Award" from the conservative Eagle Council on Saturday in St. Louis, USA.
The Eagle Award of the Phyllis Schlafly Foundation, which is close to Trump, thus went to two European politicians this year. Besides Bystron, the conservative Polish member of parliament Dominik Tarczynski (PiS) was honoured, whose viral interview with Cathy Newman should be familiar to many readers. Last year the prize was awarded to former Trump strategist Stephen Bannon.
Organizer Ed Martin and Jim Hoft with Petr Bystron
The Phyllis Schlafly Foundation is one of the oldest conservative lobby groups in the USA. It has been organizing the "Eagle Council" conference in St. Louis, Missouri for 47 years. Previous winners of the Eagle Award include Steve Bannon, the current US Attorney Jeff Sessions and the conservative Senator Jesse Helms. Donald Trump's former security advisor Lt. General Mike Flynn also received an award: he received the Singlaub Award. Bystron is the first German to receive the award.
The list of participants at the annual conference reads like the who's who of the conservative US scene. Among the prominent guests were the leading US Islam critic Pamela Geller, ex-Trump economic consultant Stephen Moore, Congressman Steve King, the Fox News terror expert Tony Shaffer, "Sheriff Merciless" Joe Arpaio, the Canadian YouTube philosopher Stefan Molyneux, as well as the investigative journalists James O'Keefe, Mike Cernovich and Jack Posobiec.
In the 70s and 80s, Phyllis Schlafly was the most prominent feminism critic in the USA and a close companion of the Republican President Ronald Reagan. In 2016 she supported the presidential election campaign of Donald Trump. She died of cancer in the same year.
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