Former Obama aide on Cuba: Trump, GOP lawmakers don’t believe in freedom
Ben Rhodes, a former White House aide who helped craft President Obama’s Cuba policy, on Sunday slammed President Trump’s decision to reverse Obama-era efforts to warm relations with Havana, saying that Trump and some GOP lawmakers “don’t believe in freedom.”
“Because a few members of Congress and President Trump don’t believe in freedom – they get to tell you where you can and can’t go,” Rhodes tweeted.
Because a few members of Congress and President Trump don’t believe in freedom – they get to tell you where you can and can’t go https://t.co/eVto40lL0A
— Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) June 18, 2017
This is what getting “tough” gets you. Well done by those Florida pols who will go down in history having embraced Trump and hurt Cubans https://t.co/pGhyljohfs
— Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) June 18, 2017
Rhodes was instrumental in the Obama administration’s efforts to restore diplomatic relations with Cuba and ease travel restrictions with the island nation, which has been under a U.S. embargo for more than four decades.
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Trump signed a directive on Friday outlining a tougher stance on Cuba.
He called the Obama administration’s Cuba policy a “one-sided deal” and accused the previous president of taking a lax stance on the Castro government’s human rights violations.
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