2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumMIAMI HERALD DECEIVES READERS ON TRUMP'S 1998 CUBA DEALINGS -Eichenwald/Newsweek
Soon after the invoice was paid, Donald Trump began planning a run for the presidential nomination of the Reform Party. He decided to first focus his run on Florida, a state with one of the largest number of electoral votesby targeting Cuban-Americans. At the time, Trump could not proclaim that his company had just paid for an illegal trip to Cubaat least not without guaranteeing both a loss in Florida and the launch of a criminal investigation. So instead, Trump decided to trick Cuban-Americans.
The first step? Writing an op-ed for the Miami Herald in which he proclaimed his steadfast support for the embargo he had just broken. The opinion piece was published June 25, 1999, just a couple of weeks before it was publicly revealed Trump was readying a presidential run. In his article, Trump wrote:
Of course, (Castro) would love Donald Trump to come to Havana and build casino hotels. Why? Not to raise the standard of living for the people of Cuba. Quite the contrary. Almost every dollar would go to prop up his police-state. Why? Because foreign investors cannot legally do business with private Cuban citizens. They can go into business only with the Castro government. It is highly illegal in Cuba for anyone except for the regime to employ a Cuban citizen.
Now, compare those words with the invoice published in Newsweek last week. Look at the date and the purpose given for why the $68,000 in expenses were incurred:
Reasonable people might conclude that the editors at the Miami Herald would be infuriated that the pages of their newspaper had been used to deceive their readers. Yes, you would think that. But apparently not.
http://www.newsweek.com/miami-herald-deceives-readers-trump-cuba-505169
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Madam45for2923
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marybourg
(12,648 posts)Of course, (Castro) would love Donald Trump to come to Havana and build casino hotels. Why? Not to raise the standard of living for the people of Cuba. Quite the contrary. Almost every dollar would go to prop up his police-state. "
I guess the Donald "doesn't remember" that when Castro took over Cuba, he closed up the scores of American (mostly mafia)- owned casinos that blanketed the island. Had he been interested in the cash, he could have just permitted them to continue on, with the cash flowing to him, instead of to Batista .
Cuba was mostly noted at the time for its live sex shows. I find it difficult to believe that, given the Rump's proclivities, he was not very well acquainted with them and with Castro's animosity toward them. So in addition to everything else wrong with this episode, he's also a disgusting hypocrite.