Kelly: Trump demands that Cuba return fugitive N.J. cop killer

[no_hypocrisy]

President Donald Trump, in ordering a significant shift in American policy toward Cuba on Friday,  invoked a brutal murder on the New Jersey Turnpike nearly half a century ago.

Listing a series of demands for the improvement of U.S.-Cuban relations in a speech to a largely Cuban-American audience in Miami, Trump called for the return of Joanne Chesimard, the Black Liberation Army operative who escaped from a New Jersey prison after being convicted of murdering a state trooper during a traffic stop on the turnpike in May 1973.

The demand for Chesimard’s extradition — along with some 50 other U.S. fugitives living in Cuba, including a Puerto Rican nationalist bomb maker linked to the murder of a Fair Lawn bank executive — could loom as a major obstacle in recent attempts by the United States to improve business and diplomatic ties with the Communist dictatorship, experts say.

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http://www.northjersey.com/story/news/columnists/mike-kelly/2017/06/17/ber-0617-kelly/404380001/


This makes no sense. Trump is asking for the return/extradition of a NJ convicted felon who's living in Cuba after he made decisions that create economic pain and uncertainty for the country. And even if he were using her return as a bargaining chip to return to Obama's policies, Cuba wouldn't trust him to follow through.

[dembotoz]

1. How do u bargain with a pathogical liar

Like in the movie war games...the only way to win is not to play

[luvMIdog]

2. he's only trying to make sense to his cult base. He's trying to look like he THIS is why

he fucked our relations with Cuba. They're fall for it - it's a cult

[roamer65]

4. Reverend Donald "Dump" Jones.

There are a lot of similarities.

[luvMIdog]

5. yep

[C_U_L8R]

3. Petulant

Spewing forth decrees and demands, Trump looks like a total asshat. A real weakling. And we all look bad because of him. The shame.

[global1]

6. I Guess That This Is Just The....

Art of the deal. ( sarcasm)