New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio was forced to defend why he went to Cuba for his honeymoon during an appearance on ABC’s The View.
“You went on a honeymoon to Cuba 25 years ago. You supported the government of Nicaragua where I was born. You went to Miami last month and quoted Che Guevara. That’s like a blackout moment if I ever heard one, in Miami,” host Ana Navarro pressed de Blasio.
“Every day I get mail from Republicans saying, ‘Democrats are socialists. Democrats want to turn the United States in Venezuela and Cuba,'” she continued. “You actually supported some of those governments and went there when we had embargos. Tell me how you feel about that?”
“Two points. First, just I don’t agree with those facts,” the 2020 long shot said before Navarro got him to admit he did honeymoon in Cuba.
“I went on my honeymoon to a country that is part of this hemisphere and is a historically and culturally important place,” he said in his defense.
De Blasio said he did not support either the Nicaraguan or Venezuelan governments and only supported a revolution in Nicaraguan to overthrow a dictator.
His defense follows an apology last month after he turned heads by quoting Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara during a rally in Miami, Florida.
