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Documents show that the Trump company spent a minimum of $68,000 for its 1998 foray into Cuba at a time when the corporate expenditure of even a penny in the Caribbean country was prohibited without government approval. But the company did not spend the money directly. Instead, with Trump’s knowledge, executives funneled the cash for the Cuba trip through an American consulting firm called Seven Arrows Investment and Development Corporation.Once the business consultants traveled to the island and incurred the expenses for the venture, Seven Arrows instructed senior officers with Trump’s company (then called Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts) on how to make the venture appear legal by linking it after-the fact to a charitable effort.
Trump spokewoman Kellyanne Conway strangely responded by justifying the actions because the Clintons used to do things too:
“Read the entire story. It starts out with a screaming headline, as it usually does, that he did business in Cuba. And it turns out that he decided not to invest there. They paid money, as I understand, in 1998 — and we’re not supposed to talk about many years ago when it comes to the Clintons.”
“Read the entire story. It starts out with a screaming headline, as it usually does, that he did business in Cuba. And it turns out that he decided not to invest there. They paid money, as I understand, in 1998 — and we’re not supposed to talk about many years ago when it comes to the Clintons.”
While it’s unclear what the Clinton’s past has to do at all with Donald Trump investing in Cuba the fact remains that even investing in Cuba for research, as Conway claims Trump was doing, is as illegal as spending money and doing business there outright.
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