In case you missed it, Byron Donalds joined Meet the Press with Kristen Welker to break down the latest on the Cuban and Iranian regimes.
“I believe there needs to be full-scale regime change in Cuba,” said Donalds. “[Díaz-Canel] is a dictator who wants to have the same deal as the Castro brothers. He wants to be able to rule Cuba with an iron fist and die in office.”
He continued, “What the American people need to understand is that Cuba, for 67 years, has been a Communist dictatorship. They have suppressed the free speech of the Cuban people. The Cuban people today are rationing food. Their economy is flat on their back.”
“For what Díaz-Canel was saying, that there don’t have to be any changes for Cuban to be better, is a lie,” Donalds said. “If you examine the history of governments around the world, free and open societies like America, that is where people actually thrive, succeed, and excel.”
“I think it’s important for everybody to listen to his words. He would rather continue to suppress the people of Cuba, to the point where they have to ration food, to the point where political opposition is jail, where there is no free press, no ability to communicate, and he believes that’s worth dying for? I think that says all that needs to be said,” Donalds concluded.
Donalds went on to discuss recent developments surrounding the Iranian regime, “The Iranians have always used the Strait of Hormuz as economic terrorism against the West to protect their Theocratic regime. We started with Cuba, now we’re on Iran. What is the consistency here? You have dictatorships that threaten their people. That suppress speech. That jail political prisoners. Obviously, in Iran we know they have no respect for human rights, women’s rights, or for the rights of people who dissent.”
“The President is doing what’s necessary to accomplish the main objectives which remain to make sure that Iran does not have a nuclear weapon, and to significantly degrade their ballistic missiles capabilities,” said Donalds.
