Trump denies aircraft carrier strike group deployment is meant to intimidate Cuba

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President Donald Trump denied that he deployed an aircraft carrier strike group to the Caribbean to intimidate Cuba one day after his Justice Department indicted former Cuban President Raul Castro.

“No, not at all,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Thursday when asked if the deployment was an intimidation tactic.

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