Trump denies aircraft carrier strike group deployment is meant to intimidate Cuba
President Trump has denied that the deployment of an aircraft carrier strike group to the Caribbean is intended to intimidate Cuba. He described U.S. actions in Cuba as humanitarian and expressed a desire to help the country. The deployment coincided with the indictment of former Cuban President Raul Castro and others related to a 1996 attack on U.S. nationals.
- ▪Trump stated that the deployment is not an intimidation tactic.
- ▪He emphasized the humanitarian nature of U.S. actions in Cuba.
- ▪The USS Nimitz and three escort warships entered the Caribbean shortly after the indictment announcement.
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President Donald Trump denied that he deployed an aircraft carrier strike group to the Caribbean to intimidate Cuba one day after his Justice Department indicted former Cuban President Raul Castro. “No, not at all,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Thursday when asked if the deployment was an intimidation tactic. Recommended Stories Trump doesn’t know if he’s ‘losing control’ of Senate GOP WATCH LIVE: Trump and EPA chief Lee Zeldin make an announcement at the White House Trump ‘may release’ his tax returns after IRS settlement Trump, describing U.S. action in Cuba as humanitarian, called the isolated communist nation “a failed country.” “They don’t have electricity, they don’t have money; they don’t have really anything, they don’t have food,” the president said.
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