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MyNameIsKhan

(2,205 posts)
Thu Sep 29, 2016, 08:06 PM Sep 2016

Miami Herald: Trump Cuba Connections (news is flowing)

72 percent republicans in Miami Dade are Cuban Americans and half of them support Embargo
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Revelations that Donald Trump’s hotel and casino company secretly spent money trying to do business in Cuba in violation of the U.S. trade embargo roiled Miami politics Thursday, forcing top Cuban-American Republicans to express concern about Trump’s dealings while maintaining that the allegation isn’t reason enough to disavow the presidential nominee yet.

Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts paid at least $68,000 to a consulting firm in late 1998 in an attempt to give Trump’s business a head start in Cuba if the U.S. loosened or lifted trade sanctions, according to a front-page Newsweek report titled “The Castro Connection.” The consulting firm, Seven Arrows Investment and Development Corp., later instructed the casino company to make the spending appear legal by saying it was for charity.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/election/donald-trump/article104851671.html#storylink=cpy


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Miami Herald: Trump Cuba Connections (news is flowing) (Original Post) MyNameIsKhan Sep 2016 OP
Joy Reid covering the story on MSNBC this morning napkinz Oct 2016 #1
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Madam45for2923

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2. Wonder who anonymously registered these 5 urls via GoDaddy on same day in December 2008
Sat Oct 1, 2016, 11:06 AM
Oct 2016
The Smoking Gun
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Wonder who anonymously registered these 5 urls via GoDaddy on same day in December 2008 (all now expired)... #TrumpinCuba
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