# Trump violated Cuban Embargo **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [October 2, 2016, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-violated-cuban-embargo/767477 "2016-10-02T15:21:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![boffking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@boffking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boffking)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2016, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-violated-cuban-embargo/767477/1 "2016-10-02T15:21:27Z")
> **[Report: Trump violated law by doing business in Cuba | CNN Politics](https://www.cnn.com/2016/09/29/politics/donald-trump-cuba-business/index.html)** > > A new report says Donald Trump sought to invest in Cuba in the late 1990s, raising the possibility that the GOP presidential nominee violated US law. He spent money on the island in 1998 to try to build a hotel. US citizens are prohibited from spending money in Cuba by federal law. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2016, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-violated-cuban-embargo/767477/2 "2016-10-02T15:25:02Z")
“Trump set fire to orphanage after serially abusing its residents, sold rendered fat to make candles for Satanic rites. Polls increase by 4%.” It’s just one teacup after another and the electorate already drowned. We may never hold a major candidate to acceptable standards again. ---
**Author:** ![coremelt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@coremelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coremelt)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2016, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-violated-cuban-embargo/767477/3 "2016-10-02T15:28:11Z")
Yeah this looks bad for Trump and will probably hurt him in Florida. However it was his company that spent the money, not him personally. He can probably claim he didn’t know about it and that the executive responsible was disciplined, pick some poor schmuck that happened to work for him back then to be the sacrificial goat. ---
**Author:** ![skdo23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@skdo23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skdo23)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2016, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-violated-cuban-embargo/767477/4 "2016-10-02T15:30:29Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > “Trump set fire to orphanage after serially abusing its residents, sold rendered fat to make candles for Satanic rites. Polls increase by 4%.” > > It’s just one teacup after another and the electorate already drowned. We may never hold a major candidate to acceptable standards again. This will probably hurt him in Florida, which he needs to win the general election, and where HRC has recently pulled back into the lead. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2016, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-violated-cuban-embargo/767477/5 "2016-10-02T15:42:18Z")
> [@coremelt](#): > > Yeah this looks bad for Trump and will probably hurt him in Florida. However it was his company that spent the money, not him personally. He can probably claim he didn’t know about it and that the executive responsible was disciplined, pick some poor schmuck that happened to work for him back then to be the sacrificial goat. I heard it was John Miller, or maybe John Barron.