A far-left Democrat congressman made perhaps the congressional blunder of the month earlier this week while trying to attack Secretary of State Marco Rubio for his policy toward Communist Cuba.
As Fox News reported, Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI) got into a spat with U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz during a committee hearing on Wednesday regarding a report the State Department released earlier this week concerning the island.
The report details a decades-long influence campaign the Cuban government has pushed within the United States to sow division and promote Marxist ideas.
“From its earliest years in power, the Cuban regime has believed that its own survival and strategic interests were inextricably linked to the advance of the revolutionary left inside the United States,” the report notes.
Pocan visited Cuba earlier in July, where he demanded that the Trump administration stop its pressure campaign against the Marxist regime. He also blamed U.S. sanctions for the island’s economic misery.
Pocna predictably bashed Rubio’s report as well, calling it a pretext for overthrowing the island’s government.
When Waltz decided to call Pocan out during the hearing for being a useful idiot for the Cuban regime, Pocan responded by shockingly claiming that Rubio’s opinion and policy toward Cuba hold no water because he has never been to the island.
Except there is one problem, as Waltz pointed out: Rubio’s entire family is from Cuba. They perfectly understand the devastation communism has wrought on what was once a fairly prosperous country.
Such a truism has been instilled in Rubio throughout his life and helps make him a perfect expert on Cuba and the Castro regime, unlike Pocan, who just happened to go on a little vacation.
WATCH:
POCAN: You’ve never been to Cuba, I’m not taking your advice.
WALTZ: I hope that you wouldn’t allow your visits to be used for Cuban regime propaganda.
POCAN: Marco Rubio has never been to Cuba, so many others who have strong opinions.
WALTZ: His entire family is from Cuba. pic.twitter.com/tlKp87kHDf
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WALTZ: During your visit (to Cuba), did you visit the private island of the Castro regime? Did you visit the private jet…
POCAN: Considering you’ve never been to Cuba, I’m not going to take your advice on where to go…I can’t tell you how to groom your hair ‘cause I can’t give good advice on that.
I don’t need your advice on Cuba. Are we going to have a military action against Cuba? Because it seems that’s what this report is setting up.
WALTZ: I am not going to take military options off the table for the president of the United States, but I would hope you would not allow your visits to be used for Cuban regime propaganda…
POCAN: Yeah but… Marco Rubio has never been to Cuba, so many others who have strong opinions.
WALTZ: His entire family is from Cuba.
POCAN: They left before the revolution! That is decades ago.
That’s a ridiculous answer.
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