Trump Dismantles Yet Another Obama Legacy “Bucket List” Policy

In a very large event in Miami, Florida, President Donald J. Trump announced his plans to set straight the errant Obama Cuba policy that turned many heads in the Cuban-American circles.  For someone who always seemed to choose the most odious issue to get behind, Barack Obama had a huge miss with this policy as hundreds of Cuban-Americans, many of whom were imprisoned and treated to a horrid life of scrutiny and persecution, abandoned any pretense of support and fell in line behind Republicans like Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL).

Opening with a recognition of recent victims of leftist violence – U.S. citizen Otto Warmbier, recently released by Cuba ally North Korea, and Representative Steve Scalise (R-LA) – Trump called for the audience to pray for them and all the American and Cuban people. He then listed some of the Cuban dissidents present for his speech in Florida, including Jorge Luis García Pérez (Antúnez), who suffered 17 years in prison for objecting to communism, and Cary Roque, a dissident who Trump allowed to deliver a few short words.

Trump also took a moment to acknowledge two dissidents not present in Miami – José Daniel Ferrer of the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU) and Berta Soler of the Ladies in White – who were banned from traveling to the event by the communist regime. The president honored  the “great people” who fought at Bay of Pigs, the 2506 Brigade veterans present at the event, and the “children of Operation Peter Pan.”

“We want to thank you all for being a voice for the voiceless,” Trump concluded. “The exiles and dissidents here today have witnessed communism destroy a nation, just as communism has destroyed every nation where it has ever been tried.”

President Trump made no bones about how he felt regarding the Cuban Communist regime and their frightening record of Human Rights violations which, apparently, did not seem to faze the former president. Citizen Obama was sitting at home, seething, I’m sure, about one of his pride-and-joy achievements being flushed summarily down the toilet. But Trump did not pull any punches as he went down the list of those that the Cuban dictators and their government had tortured, murdered, imprisoned and violated over the many decades that the country has been operating under Communism. And although Communism is one of those very precious concepts to a Leftist, there was no love lost between Communists and the Cuban-Americans who attended this event.

Trump listed those crimes in detail. “You look at what happened and what communism has done,” he listed. “Believers persecuted for preaching the word of God, you watch the Women in White – bruised, bloodied, and captured on their way from Mass, you have heard the chilling cries of loved ones or the cracks of firing squads piercing through the ocean breeze — not a good sound.”

“This is the simple truth of the Castro regime: my administration will not hide from it, excuse it, or glamorize it, and we will never, ever be blind to it. We know what is going on and we remember what happened,” Trump promised.

“Last year, I promised to be a voice against repression. You went out and you voted, and here I am,” the president told the audience. “Now that I am president, America will expose the crimes of the Castro regime… now we hold the cards.”

Those cards, the president promised, would be used to pressure a regime that “harbors cop killers, hijackers, and terrorists,” and has “shipped arms to North Korea and fueled chaos in Venezuela.”

The new policies required Cuba to “play nice” with the United States and enter into an agreement with us regarding their terrible treatment of dissidents and political prisoners and return fugitives from America to this country. Trump chided the Obama “normalization” process that he had initiated with his Cuba policy and said that we have to go back to a tough stance on them in order to make the necessary changes and to convince Cuban officials to join the 21st Century.

In anticipation of the announcement, Cuban anti-communist dissident leaders praised the changes to American policy, calling them a “positive step” for the democratization of the island. The White House invited a number of prominent Cuban dissidents to the announcement, including the head of the Ladies in White movement, Berta Soler, who was banned from leaving Cuba to attend.

President Trump made reforms to benefit the Cuban people and limit the power of the communist regime a staple of his presidential campaign, earning him the first endorsement from the Bay of Pigs Veterans’ Association in the history of that group.

While it’s not known what Obama was doing when this announcement and event took place, but chances are that he was looking for a spare cigarette butt by flashlight in the back yard due to the stress and anxiety of watching his Legacy completely disassembled.

Source: Breitbart