How Biden Embraced Trump’s Terror Smear Against Cuba
Four years ago today, Donald Trump baselessly put Cuba on the State Sponsors of Terrorism list. As president, Joe Biden went along with the lie.
US president Joe Biden receives a briefing in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 9, 2025. (Samuel Corum / Sipa / Bloomberg via Getty Images)
On this day four years ago, a week after the MAGA brigades stormed the Capitol, Donald Trump’s outgoing administration put Cuba on the State Sponsors of Terrorism (SSOT) list.
The move irked former and current US officials — there is a broad consensus in the intelligence community that Cuba does not sponsor terrorism. But Joe Biden, who was part of the Obama administration’s legacy-making rapprochement with the island, was expected to promptly reverse it.
Four years later, Cuba is still on the list.
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