‘Maybe We’ll Have a Friendly Takeover of Cuba’
President Donald Trump said Friday that “maybe we will achieve a friendly takeover of Cuba” and that his administration was in contact with the Cuban government.
Trump’s comments came during a press rally on the South Lawn as he departed the White House for Corpus Christi, Texas.
“The Cuban government is talking with us. They’re in big trouble, as you know. They don’t have any money, they don’t have anything right now, but they’re talking with us, and maybe we’ll have a friendly takeover of Cuba. We could very well end up having a friendly takeover of Cuba,” he said.
“We have people who live here who want to return to Cuba and they are very happy with what is happening,” he said.
Trump’s comments come days after the Cuban government announced it allegedly engaged in a shootout on a Florida-registered speedboat, killing four people and arresting at least six others, as Breitbart News noted:
Thursday morning, the official newspaper of the Communist Party grandmother reported the names of six people who were allegedly on board the speedboat when it was stopped and claimed they were “terrorists” trying to attack the Cuban government.
Among those named are individuals the Castro regime had previously identified as “terrorists” on a mostly bogus “terrorist” list, including human rights activists and YouTubers.
Neither the Castro regime nor the White House offered further details Thursday morning, although some U.S. media outlets claimed to have spoken to relatives of those on board who suggested the individuals involved were deeply committed to overthrowing communism in their home countries. The Castro regime has a decades-long record of unjustified killings of civilians at sea, including children and American citizens, with impunity.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio stressed Wednesday that the United States would independently verify the circumstances.
“We will quickly know many more facts about this incident than we currently know. The majority of the facts reported publicly are those that come from information provided by the Cubans,” Rubio noted. “We will verify this independently.”
