Two former Cabinet ministers are demanding an apology and retraction of a “vulgar” book passage.
OTTAWA — Two former Canadian lawmakers are calling on former President Donald Trump to apologize for reviving and circulating a long-debunked rumor that is “vile, vulgar, and deeply offensive.”
Their move comes after Trump falsely claims that Canada’s prime minister is the son of former Cuban dictator Fidel Castro in “Save America,” the former president’s new photo book that also provides commentary.
Lloyd Axworthy and Allan Rock call the section in the book “profoundly offensive,” interpreting it as a flagrant attempt to politically undermine Justin Trudeau.
“We just thought it’s about time Canadians showed some outrage about this attempt to interfere into our affairs,” Axworthy, Canada’s former top diplomat and Liberal Party elder statesman, said in an interview with POLITICO.
“Part of the Trump or the autocratic playbook is to get people’s confidence undermined, and it’s clear coming out in a book like that, it would be picked up by all kinds of enablers.”
Trump writes in his new coffee-table book that Trudeau’s mother, Margaret, was “somehow associated” with Castro and notes that “a lot of people say that Justin is his son.”
The former president adds: “He swears that he isn’t but how the hell would he know! Castro had good hair, the ‘father’ didn’t, Justin has good hair, and has become a Communist just like Castro.”
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Former Canadian politicians blast Trump for spreading Trudeau-Castro conspiracy https://t.co/ndjwjbaQf4
— POLITICO (@politico) September 13, 2024
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