In a desperate, last-minute bid to court Miami’s influential Cuban-American voters, Donald Trump made an appearance at the Little Havana headquarters of Brigade 2506, veterans of the failed 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion.
On any day, these octogenarians who risked their lives to rid Cuba of Fidel Castro when they were young offer priceless living history to visitors, academics and journalists at their humble museum packed with memorabilia. Unfortunately, they dragged themselves Tuesday into an unworthy battle — a nasty presidential political campaign where they don’t belong. Certainly not this way, endorsing a celebrity businessman who stands for the kind of authoritarian governance these men fought against. A candidate who has ties to an aggressive Russia, like the one that manhandled Cuba for decades, then left the island in shambles without the benefit of glasnost and perestroika.
As if those weren’t enough reasons to stay out of this race, the Bay of Pigs Veterans Association is casting its support of Trump — a candidate so ill-tempered and unprepared that high-ranking GOP leaders have abandoned him — as something unprecedented but that members felt compelled to do now.
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