Cuba Named a State Sponsor of Terrorism by Trump Administration

[sabra]

Source: WSJ

WASHINGTON—The Trump administration is putting Cuba back on the list of countries that are considered to be state sponsors of terrorism, a senior U.S. official said, rescinding a 2015 move by the Obama administration to thaw ties to the onetime Cold War adversary.

The redesignation, which will be announced Monday, may complicate President-elect Joe Biden’s efforts to improve ties with Havana. It is the latest in a series of foreign policy steps the administration has taken in recent days to try to lock in policies before it leaves office.

The State Department list to which Cuba is being added includes Syria, Iran and North Korea. Cuba was removed from that list in 2015 as the Obama administration sought to build ties with the country, part of a campaign that included boosting commercial air travel, the reopening of embassies and a visit by President Obama to the country.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is expected to argue that the move is justified because Cuba has given refuge to an American convicted of killing a New Jersey state trooper in 1973 and to cite other complaints against the Cuban government.


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[ForgoTheConsequence]

1. Did Cuba storm the Capitol building?

I must have missed it.

[yuiyoshida]

19. well yeah kinda like

how the Germans invaded Pearl Harbor..

[BlueIdaho]

2. Cuba names United States a Sponsor of Domestic Terrorism.

[C_U_L8R]

3. Cuba needs to send a handmirror to the White House

[johnp3907]

4. At least this administration has a sense of humor.

[unblock]

5. oh, because they are supporting a cop-killer? so the republican party is a terrorist sponsor, too!

they are supporting the insurrectionists, who oh by the way, killed a cop!

[lamp_shade]

6. Safe to assume that President Biden can remove it from the list?

[drray23]

7. Why would it complicate the Biden's administration efforts ?

If Pompeo can do that unilaterally, cant Blinken revert it in two weeks ?

[groundloop]

8. SQUIRREL !!!!!!

Let's see some evidence Donnie. This is just some last minute pandering.

[yaesu]

9. I think I know the real reason

I was listening to Radio Havana Cuba last night, something I do often with the shortwave radio, and they were blasting away at tRump the way US news should be doing. I bet little hands got his depends soiled over it. Lets hope Biden reverses this, immediately.

[scarletwoman]

12. Actually, the rump administration announced their intention to do this a couple weeks ago.

So it wouldn't have anything to do with last night's radio broadcast, sorry.

[Harker]

10. That's rich. n/t

[Yeehah]

11. I'm so sick of this shit

Trump and Pompeo are the real terrorists.

[rickyhall]

13. Donnie just had to get one more dig at a great president.

Trump should be done like Akhenaten. Erased from memory.

[JohnnyRingo]

14. Trump must have watched Scarface last night.

Say hello to my little hands.

[amb123]

15. NO DONALD J. FUCKER! YOU ARE A SPONSOR OF STATE TERRORISM!

[Roy Rolling]

16. Yikes!

Doing something to Cuba would be a typical Trump dick move. He would love to build a hotel on their beaches.

[DallasNE]

17. Another Insane Move By Trump

There has been no recent event to place this in the emergency category. Either he should have done this 6 months ago or leave it to the incoming administration. Not with a scant 9 days to go in his administration. Indeed, his staff should have refused the order.

[olddad65]

18. In other news, trump posthumously awards Benedict Arnold the Medal of Freedom.

[Mr. Sparkle]

20. The republican party needs to be put on that list.

[ad121rome]

21. Not for long

What can Cuba do, run over someone with a 55 Chevy. Exporting terror, ha.

[TrollBuster9090]

22. HEADLINE: Grunting Blimp In State Department Attempts To Distract From His Boss' Attempted Coup.

There. Fixed the headline for you.

And I have to say, Pompeo is a complete IDIOT if he thinks that pathetic announcement will distract even REPUBLICAN stooges from an attack by Trump on the nation's capitol. He'd be better off making a show of yanking somebody's security clearance again. And I'm not talking about some half-assed security yank from a peon like Brenner or Rice. He'd have to yank OBAMA or CLINTON'S security clearance to distract even a FEW sheep.

[twodogsbarking]

23. Add Mar-a-Lago to that list

it meets all of the criteria and more.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

24. Oh the irony

Especially after Jan. 6.

[pecosbob]

25. RUFKM?

[NoRoadUntravelled]

26. When does Trump declare himself the best US Presidential Sponsor of Domestic Terrorism

and Government overthrow?

[Historic NY]

27. Wait 1973...

but Trump want the asshole Wikileaks Julian Assange brought here, and has pardon convicted killers of innocents.

[groundloop]

28. Pompeo claimed "the Castro regime must end its support for international terrorism....."

Ummmm, Mikey, there hasn't been anyone named Castro in the Cuban government for several years. Their current President is Miguel Díaz-Canel who was educated as an electrical engineer.

I was able to visit Cuba two years ago before Benedict Donald shut down travel between the US and Cuba. I had a fantastic time, there's lots of history there, and would like to go again if I get the chance. Hopefully President Biden will go back to Obama's position fairly quickly.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

30. Fury over Trump's 11th-hour Yemen, Cuba sanctions

With a little over a week left in the Trump administration, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced new sanctions Monday on Cuba's government and the Houthi rebels in Yemen, sparking a barrage of criticism against the latest 11th-hour moves to change U.S. foreign policy.

Congress was so infuriated, particularly about the Houthi designation, that lawmakers' staff berated a group of State Department officials who were briefing them on the designations Monday morning.

"You need to stop f---ing lying to Congress," one staffer told the officials, according to two congressional aides.

Pompeo returned Cuba to the list of state sponsors of terrorism, which brings with it the strictest of U.S. sanctions. But designating the Houthis, a rebel group that controls over 80% of Yemen's population, as a foreign terrorist organization will have particularly devastating consequences, according to U.S. officials and aid groups that work in the war-torn country.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/fury-over-trumps-11th-hour-yemen-cuba-sanctions/ar-BB1cFmmB?li=BBnb7Kz

[iluvtennis]

31. I'm guessing the Biden administration can overturn this. trump/his enablers are jackasses. Where

are the sanctions against Russia to putting bounties on our military members and for hacking into our gov't computer systems.

[George II]

32. trump should be a state sponsor of terrorism.

[ffr]

33. Welcome to the Grift Club, Little Havana, Florida!

200,000 of you apparently fell for the GOP Grift.

Live and learn. GOP only cares about itself. Cubans and other minorities are merely tokens.

[cntrfthrs]

34. easily overturned by the stroke of ...

president Bidens pen...

[ananda]

35. Trump admin and GOP named a state sponsor of terrorism by..

.. every other free country in the world.