Newsweek's Trump-Cuba Story Lacks Perspective

Newsmax ^ | 30 September 2016 | Mauricio Claver-Carone

[blueplum]

This morning, Newsweek published a rather sensationalist (and hypocritical) story on Trump's involvement with a consulting firm that took a scouting trip to Cuba in 1998.

Here's the gist.

Trump's company apparently hired a consulting firm, Seven Arrows Investment and Development Corporation ("Seven Arrows"), to do a scouting trip to Cuba in 1998. Months after, Seven Arrows billed Trump's company over $68,000 for the trip.

In the late 1990s — like today — the Bill Clinton Administration was licensing and encouraging U.S. companies to take scouting trips to Cuba, with the hope they would return and lobby Congress to ease the sanctions that he codified into law in 1996. Sound familiar? At the time, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce was forming coalitions to do business in Cuba with the same zeal as today.

[blueplum]

another Clinton attack that can't withstand the light of day

Go Trump!

[Sacajaweau]

That’s a Cheshire grin on my face.

[Enduro Guy]

Pingaroo.

[jazminerose]

Hmmmmm. Indeed. The tricky part is getting the truth out to JQP.

[Robert DeLong]

JQP = John Q. Public for those who may wonder.

[Flint]

I fail to see what the problem is with a business man who develops resort properties taking a look at what was going on in Cuba. What is the issue that is supposed to be some kind of scandal?

[Licensed-To-Carry]

Newsweek my butt, nobody reads Newsweek.

[Freee-dame]

Unfortunately, the light of day seldom reaches the MSM-watching, low information public.

[ExSoldier]

The media here in Miami, FL are all over this. Not sure just yet how the Cuban exile community is handling it, but they don't trust the MSM either. A potential issue is the Cuban LIBTARD Anchors on some of these television stations could maybe sway some folks.

[blueplum]

The Newsmax story needs to make it to cubano talk radio - it’s the perfect pivot to turn the whole Cuban easement of relations thing back on the Clintons where it belongs

[HollyB]

Hurt feelings? So that is the justification they come up with for their lack of self control. Can you imagine if everyone who had ‘hurt feelings’ acted on them in an unlawful manner? Geez, our whole country may look like Detroit or Chicago. But, seriously. Justification of criminal behavior only enables more crime. The MSM is complicit.