Critics: Jayapal Conducting Private Diplomacy to Undermine Trump Oil Sanctions on Cuba

Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) announces she has been working with foreign countries to supply oil to Cuba, in defiance of President Trump.

She says Trump's economic sanctions against the Communist regime are equivalent to illegally bombing the nation's infrastructure. pic.twitter.com/DAh8OIUU8i

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Poor Cuba

Jayapal’s anti-American sympathies have been clear for years, and in a video she posted to X, she didn’t disappoint her fellow anti-American camp followers.

“In January, Trump issued an executive order threatening tariffs on any country supplying fuel to Cuba,” the Indian immigrant explained:

This was this January — just a few months ago. And oil shipments from Venezuela, that’s where Cuba had been getting its oil, were halted after the U.S. operations to kidnap Nicolás Maduro. Since January, only one Russian tanker of oil has made it to Cuba.

That tanker, she continued, landed in the isle just before she did, and that one tanker carries only enough oil for 10 to 14 days of Cubans’ needs.

Jayapal then confessed to possibly violating the Logan Act.