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Newsweek: Trump Illegally Violated U.S. Embargo on Cuba

HeadlineSep 29, 2016

In news from the campaign trail, a new investigation by Newsweek reveals that one of Donald Trump’s businesses violated the U.S. embargo on Cuba and secretly did business there in the late 1990s. The investigation draws on internal company documents showing Trump’s company, then called Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts, spent at least $68,000 in Cuba during a secret business trip to Havana. At the time, it was illegal under U.S. law to spend any corporate money in Cuba. The investigation also reveals that Trump had knowledge of top executives working to cover up the illegal expenditures. Only one year later, Trump wrote in an op-ed in the Miami Herald in 1999: “I would rather take a financial hit than become a financial backer of one of the world’s most brutal dictators. … Of course we should keep the embargo in place.”

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