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(2,336 posts)tblue37
(65,336 posts)https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2019/08/16/trump-claim-michigan-man-of-year/2033724001/
TheBlackAdder
(28,183 posts)IllinoisBirdWatcher
(2,315 posts)Peacetrain
(22,875 posts)trof
(54,256 posts)In a desperate, last-minute bid to court Miamis influential Cuban-American voters, Donald Trump made an appearance at the Little Havana headquarters of Brigade 2506, veterans of the failed 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion.
On any day, these octogenarians who risked their lives to rid Cuba of Fidel Castro when they were young offer priceless living history to visitors, academics and journalists at their humble museum packed with memorabilia. Unfortunately, they dragged themselves Tuesday into an unworthy battle a nasty presidential political campaign where they dont belong. Certainly not this way, endorsing a celebrity businessman who stands for the kind of authoritarian governance these men fought against. A candidate who has ties to an aggressive Russia, like the one that manhandled Cuba for decades, then left the island in shambles without the benefit of glasnost and perestroika.
As if those werent enough reasons to stay out of this race, the Bay of Pigs Veterans Association is casting its support of Trump a candidate so ill-tempered and unprepared that high-ranking GOP leaders have abandoned him as something unprecedented but that members felt compelled to do now.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/fabiola-santiago/article110431447.html
BKDem
(1,733 posts)That had a pig's head in it.
33taw
(2,439 posts)captain queeg
(10,171 posts)Silent3
(15,204 posts)Alacritous Crier
(3,815 posts)Well played!
Captain Zero
(6,805 posts)nt
jls4561
(1,257 posts)Ivanka?
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)My apology to real swine.
billh58
(6,635 posts)it was an endorsement from a small group of Bay of Pigs participants: "Trump Accepts Endorsement from Bay of Pigs Vets Association."
https://www.nbcnews.com/video/trump-accepts-endorsement-from-bay-of-pigs-vets-association-793218627673
Nevilledog
(51,080 posts)npk
(3,660 posts)So I am not surprised he is a claiming an award about Pigs
Kid Berwyn
(14,881 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,881 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,080 posts)How fitting. I hope someone will ask Florida Cubans what he has done for them.
Blue Owl
(50,349 posts)Quite an impressive oeuvre there, little Donny...
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)shanti
(21,675 posts)The Big Old Pig Award
jmowreader
(50,555 posts)I can tell you what he did to our great Puerto Rican population...who are, as you may remember, actual US Citizens.
He did everything he possibly could to destroy everything in PR that the hurricane missed.