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Dem Congressman Has Never Been More Proud to be American Than When Collaborating w/Communist Dictatorship
Posted By Daniel Greenfield On December 18, 2014 @ 9:39 am In The Point | 3 Comments
Congressman Charlie Rangel was in the Army. He spent much of his life serving in Congress. At no point in time did this make him proud to be an American in the way that collaborating with a Communist dictator did.
Democratic New York Rep. Charlie Rangel said on MSNBC’s “Ronan Farrow Daily” that in the aftermath of the normalization of relations with Cuba, he has “never been more proud of being an American.
“This is exciting, not just for America, but it’s exciting for South America and Central America, we’re the only country in the hemisphere that sought to change the Cuban government for an embargo that hasn’t worked,” Rangel continued. “I’ve never been more proud of being an American and I’m glad to see the results in Havana while I’m here.
Rangel has long been a Castro stooge. He’s a predictably corrupt creature of the political machine and has been absolutely shameless in passing on Castro propaganda.
Rangel had traveled to Cuba in the past on a trip funded by the Communist dictatorship.
Rangel’s amendment and reimbursements are the latest developments in a Center investigation into the trip to Havana, which was designed to raise awareness about endangered birds. As it turns out, for Rangel it was also about meeting with President Fidel Castro to discuss the uneasy U.S.-Cuba relationship.
The actual funder of what Rangel’s form described as a trip for “education and fact finding” was the Cuban government.
Rangel, a 35-year veteran of Congress, declined to comment for this report. His chief of staff, George Dalley, said the congressman brought an unauthorized companion on the trip because “we were ignorant of the law and we erred in the interpretation of the [House ethics] rules.”
Until contacted by the Center, Rangel and his staff didn’t know that the Cuban government had footed the bill for the congressman’s trip, Dalley said.
Rangel learned about the opportunity to go to Cuba from consultant William Denis Fugazy. The one-time limousine mogul had pled guilty to perjury for hiding assets from creditors after he filed for bankruptcy. He was sentenced to two years’ probation but received a presidential pardon from Bill Clinton shortly before he left office in 2001.
Rangel reportedly was one of several prominent figures who pushed to get Fugazy’s record cleared. According to those close to both the congressman and Fugazy, the two are close friends who share a commitment to ethnic and racial integration and a fondness for Cuba.
Treason? Just pride in being an American who advocates for a brutal Communist dictatorship.
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