White House Clarifies Trump’s ‘Cuba Is Next’ Statement—Leavitt Says ‘Regime Is Bound to Fall’

WASHINGTON—White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt addressed the situation in Cuba, where the population of nearly 10 million are impacted by rolling blackouts and instability, during a press briefing April 8. She further clarified President Donald Trump’s recent statement that “Cuba is next,” after the U.S. military successfully detained former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores Maduro before striking Iran in coordination with Israel. “I think when President Trump said that and he later clarified after making that statement that he meant the Cuban regime is bound to fall,” Leavitt said in response to a question from The Epoch Times. “The country is very weak. They’re in a very weak position economically, obviously, and financially.”...