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Fabiola Santiago

Fabiola Santiago: Always the con man, Trump didn’t pay for anyone’s meal at Versailles like he promised

Cuban Americans who don’t support disgraced ex-president Donald Trump — and there are many of us — are disgusted and furious with his post-arraignment host, the landmark restaurant-bakery Versailles.

People on social media are calling an “embarrassment” and “shameful” the obsequious way Miami Republicans embraced Trump, sang happy birthday and organized a prayer circle — as if he had returned from fighting a war, not surrendering after a historic federal indictment.

But should we really take Versailles to task — or was the Trump takeover an inevitable act of democratic free speech, as some claim in defense of the restaurant and/or Trump’s supporters?

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