Did Donald Trump violate the Cuba embargo?

[PurpleOwl]

A company controlled by Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for president, secretly conducted business in communist Cuba during Fidel Castro’s presidency despite strict American trade bans that made such undertakings illegal, according to interviews with former Trump executives, internal company records and court filings.

Documents show that the Trump company spent a minimum of $68,000 for its 1998 foray into Cuba at a time when the corporate expenditure of even a penny in the Caribbean country was prohibited without U.S. government approval. But the company did not spend the money directly. Instead, with Trump’s knowledge, executives funneled the cash for the Cuba trip through an American consulting firm called Seven Arrows Investment and Development Corporation. Once the business consultants traveled to the island and incurred the expenses for the venture, Seven Arrows instructed senior officers with Trump’s company—then called Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts—how to make it appear legal by linking it after-the-fact to a charitable effort.

The payment by Trump Hotels came just before the New York business mogul launched his first bid for the White House, seeking the nomination of the Reform Party. On his first day of the campaign, he traveled to Miami where he spoke to a group of Cuban-Americans, a critical voting bloc in the swing state. Trump vowed to maintain the embargo and never spend his or his companies’ money in Cuba until Fidel Castro was removed from power.

Donald Trump's company violated the U.S. embargo against Cuba

 

[gipper]

Let's see....Obama and Hillary violate the law repeatedly and nothing is done about it, but you are worried about this?

 

[LoneLaugher]

Let's see....Obama and Hillary violate the law repeatedly and nothing is done about it, but you are worried about this?

Let's see......can you do anything other than deflect to Clinton or Obama when presented with a negative comment about Trump?

 

[ScienceRocks]

Trump belongs in prison for all the criminal activity that he has taken part in. The guy is a real piece of shit.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Who cares?

 

[Bleipriester]

Trump belongs in prison for all the criminal activity that he has taken part in. The guy is a real piece of shit.

So evil Trump ignored sanctions while Saint Hillary manifested "only some minor skull mountain ranges". A peccadillo, right?

 

[gipper]

Let's see....Obama and Hillary violate the law repeatedly and nothing is done about it, but you are worried about this?

Let's see......can you do anything other than deflect to Clinton or Obama when presented with a negative comment about Trump?

I can't. Sorry.

I find anyone who denigrates Trump at every turn, but never Obama and Clinton when both are clearly criminals, is a real dumb ass.

 

[Onyx]

Let's see......can you do anything other than deflect to Clinton or Obama when presented with a negative comment about Trump?

They mold themselves in their masters image.

Donald is the king of deflection.

 

[Onyx]

I find anyone who denigrates Trump at every turn, but never Obama and Clinton when both are clearly criminals, is a real dumb ass.

Obama and Hillary Clinton broke the law.

Moving on...

 

[JakeStarkey]

Onyx, fix your mistake, please. LL wrote that, not me.

 

[Eloy]

Donald Trump is an out-and-out braggart the likes we have not seen in Europe since Benito Mussolini.

 

[gipper]

Donald Trump is an out-and-out braggart the likes we have not seen in Europe since Benito Mussolini.

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Yeah...and Cankles is so wonderful.

 

[Onyx]

Donald Trump is an out-and-out braggart the likes we have not seen in Europe since Benito Mussolini.

Benito Mussolini had the capacity for intelligence.

I honestly believe Donald has high functioning autism.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Donald Trump is an out-and-out braggart the likes we have not seen in Europe since Benito Mussolini.

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Yeah...and Cankles is so wonderful.

Typical gipper deflection.

Both Clinton and Trump are awful.

 

[Onyx]

Yeah...and Cankles is so wonderful.

See? You just deflected again.

Note how some people on this site never do that.

 

[LoneLaugher]

Donald Trump is an out-and-out braggart the likes we have not seen in Europe since Benito Mussolini.

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Yeah...and Cankles is so wonderful.

You just did it again. Aren't you bored?

 

[gipper]

Donald Trump is an out-and-out braggart the likes we have not seen in Europe since Benito Mussolini.

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Yeah...and Cankles is so wonderful.

You just did it again. Aren't you bored?

Get use to it or not...matters not to me.

 

[LoneLaugher]

Donald Trump is an out-and-out braggart the likes we have not seen in Europe since Benito Mussolini.

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Yeah...and Cankles is so wonderful.

You just did it again. Aren't you bored?

Get use to it or not...matters not to me.

That is obvious. The question stands. Aren't you boring yiurself? Doesn't deflecting like that dozens of times per day seem tedious?

Why not address the claim in the OP?

 

[gipper]

Donald Trump is an out-and-out braggart the likes we have not seen in Europe since Benito Mussolini.

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Yeah...and Cankles is so wonderful.

You just did it again. Aren't you bored?

Get use to it or not...matters not to me.

That is obvious. The question stands. Aren't you boring yiurself? Doesn't deflecting like that dozens of times per day seem tedious?

Why not address the claim in the OP?

The claim is dumb.

It's akin to worrying about the cold, as the Titanic is sinking.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

The newest Democrat lie du jour.