This morning, reports emerged that Donald Trump illegally did business in Castro's Cuba.
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.
Not surprisingly, Trump surrogates have been confronted by this story today, and no one has been more vigorous in her defense of Donald Trump than campaign manager Kellyanne Conway.
Read the entire story. It starts out with a screaming headline, as it usually does, that he did business in Cuba. And it turns out that he decided not to invest there. They paid money, as I understand, in 1998 — and we’re not supposed to talk about many years ago when it comes to the Clintons.
Yeah. Who knows what the Clintons were up to in 1998? Anyway, there’s just one little problem with Conway saying that Donald Trump spent money looking for investments in Cuba but decided not to buy.
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Thursday, Sep 29, 2016 · 7:06:08 PM +00:00 · Mark Sumner
If you can’t read the tiny text, the points say:
These manufactured reports from a totally discredited reporter are pathetic.
Kurt Eichewald sourced 90% of the report from company documents.
The Clinton Spin Machine and their allies in the media are getting desperate, and it’s pretty sad tha they have to go back 10, 20, or even 30 years to try and attack Mr. Trump.
It’s 18 years … and considering that nearly every talking point the Trump campaign has used since the debate has involved Bill Clinton’s affairs in the 1980s and 1990s … yeah.
Can you imagine if MSNBC dedicated even five minutes for a story on how the Clintons made their money by selling access and rewarding their special interest donors?
Well, every penny the Clintons have made for 30+ years is public because they released their taxes. And do you really want to add up how many minutes were spent talking about Clinton Foundation only to find there was no scandal involved?
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 Corp. 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.
This comes just as the investigation into other ways Trump has misused a charitable foundation is exploding.
Thanks for the confirmation, Kellyanne.
