Posted on 09/08/2015 1:30:20 PM PDT by JediJones
Donald Trump’s longstanding hard line against Cuba has started to soften...
Said Trump: “I think it's fine. I think it's fine, but we should have made a better deal. The concept of opening with Cuba — 50 years is enough — the concept of opening with Cuba is fine. I think we should have made a stronger deal.”
That’s a far cry from the Cuba position Trump laid out in 1999...
“He's been a killer, he's a criminal, and I don't think you should reward people who have done what he's done,” Trump said on Nov. 15, 1999...
In August, Trump’s former adviser Roger Stone told POLITICO that Trump’s position on Cuba was unchanged...
“In 2000, Trump understood that normalizing relations with Cuba only props up the police state in that country — he's right today that we should have driven a better deal,” Stone told POLITICO via email on Tuesday.
In changing positions on Cuba, Trump is opposed to nearly every other major Republican candidate running for president, except for Sen. Rand Paul...
Like Trump, Democrat Hillary Clinton says she supports normalization with Cuba...
Conventional wisdom holds that a Republican can't win a Florida GOP primary without support from Cuban-Americans...
[In 1999], Trump said Castro was “absolutely a killer and should be treated as such” and that the dictator’s “arbitrary and implacable” secret police turned “his nation into a maximum security prison.”
...Trump wrote. “I prefer to dispense with that type of profit than to become a financial supporter of one of the most brutal dictators in the world, a man who once was willing to collaborate in the destruction of my country. For me, there are no doubts regarding the embargo. Of course we must keep the embargo. We must keep it until Castro goes."
(Excerpt) Read more at capitalnewyork.com ...
If you don’t count support for all of the good things Planned Parenthood does.
Difference is, with President Trump, Cuba will become Capitalism, with a Trump Tower in downtown Havana.
What will Trump do when 0dungo replaces Raul Castro?
A better deal would get US property and wealth back from Cuba, which was the reason for the Cuban embargo.
Looks like people have been doing a lot of opposition research. I look for things like this to come up in the debates.
And prisoners...........
That maybe true. Trump could set up the GOP pretty good here baiting Hewett to ask him about Cuban policy and criticize Obama at the same time. Hewitt may go for it.
Exactly—Trump sees one of his hotels there making millions of dollars.
The problem with this idea is that while he is running for president - he has to turn his business ventures over to someone else. I’m not sure who in Cuba could afford his hotel room rates anyway. I guess it would just be available to the wealthy foreigners.
I think it stinks. Fidel after lying about his intentions ran the successful Cubans out of Cuba and confiscated their property. They wanted to return to Cuba . They are still here. After Castro formed the socialist island paradise Cubans all over the island wanted out and came to America over the Florida Straits on anything that would float. Many didn’t make it. After Fidel said anyone that wanted to leave Cuba could leave he hoodwinked Jimmy Carter to agree to welcome the refugees and Fidel proceeded to empty his jails and nut houses sending them to South Florida. Apparently Fidel is still at 89 alive and kicking, the island paradise is still in shambles in need of the immigrating good ole USA greenbacks!
I’d like to hear Trump discuss how, when President, he will strike a better deal or return to sanctions.
Ditto for the other candidates. If you think it’s a bad deal, tell me what you’re going to do about it. Just make damned sure its a Constitutionally valid action.
? Trump clarified that. Where is all this vitriol coming from?
You hit the nail right on the head. Trump will dump the communists and bring in Miami Cuban-Americans to run the country....and then watch how it explodes in growth tourism and successful business!!! Trump has a noggin’ up there. Go Donald!!! Annex Cuba with Cuban-Americans, and give them back the country that was stolen from them by Obama’s brother Fidel & Raoul Castro!!! Free the Cuban people!!! Then do the same for Puerto Rico!!!
Well, I guess Trump still has an opening to say that his “better deal” would’ve included the Castros relinquishing power and him installing the exiles to transition to democracy.
Trump may be seeing the polls that show most Americans support normalizing relations, but the article makes a good point that this hurts him in Florida with the Cuban Republican base, a state where he already has two hometown boys who support the embargo running against him.
seeing the polls that show most Americans support normalizing relations,....Where? On DU?
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