Trump: ‘I never did business with Cuba’

Donald Trump Thursday denied that his company invested in Cuba and violated the U.S. embargo. 

“I never went to Cuba. I’ve never been to Cuba. I never did business with Cuba,” the Republican presidential nominee said in an interview with WMUR in New Hampshire.

{mosads}”There’s nothing else to say. I never did business in Cuba. I’d tell you very openly if I did. I was not involved in doing business in Cuba.”

Newsweek reported that a Trump-controlled company, Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts, invested $68,000 during a 1988 “foray” into Cuba. 

The company reportedly used a consulting firm to disguise the investment as a charitable donation. 

U.S. corporate expenditures were prohibited in Fidel Castro’s Cuba in 1998.

In another interview Thursday with NH1 News, Trump questioned the integrity of the reporter behind the article. 

“There’s this guy who has a very bad reputation as a reporter. You see what his record is. He wrote something about me in Cuba. No, I never did anything in Cuba. I never did a deal in Cuba,” he said. 

The Hillary Clinton campaign hit Trump over the report, arguing it is an example of his willingness to put his business ahead of national interest. 

“Trump’s business with Cuba appears to have broken the law, flouted U.S. foreign policy, and is in complete contradiction to Trump’s own repeated, public statements that he had been offered opportunities to invest in Cuba but passed them up,” said Clinton adviser Jake Sullivan.