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Thu Sep 29, 2016, 08:07 PM Sep 2016

Hillary Clinton campaign: 'Trump's business with Cuba appears to have broken the law'

Hillary Clinton campaign: 'Trump's business with Cuba appears to have broken the law'

by Oliver Darcy at Business Insider

http://www.businessinsider.com/clinton-campaign-trump-cuba-statement-2016-9

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"Trump's business with Cuba appears to have broken the law, flouted US foreign policy, and is in complete contradiction to Trump's own repeated, public statements that he had been offered opportunities to invest in Cuba but passed them up," said Jake Sullivan, a senior adviser to Clinton's campaign.

Newsweek reported that a Trump company spent at least $68,000 in the communist country in 1998. The US embargo on Cuba prohibited such business from being conducted in the country.

"This latest report shows once again that Trump will always put his own business interest ahead of the national interest — and has no trouble lying about it," Sullivan said.

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