We have enabled email notificationsyou will now receive an email if you receive a reply to your comment, there is an update to a comment thread you follow or if a user you follow comments. Kasprak only verified Castro's location on April 1 and April 19. The most plausible explanation remains that, soon after marrying, honeymooning, and moving in together after years of keeping their relationship secret, Pierre and Margaret Trudeau had sex and created a child who would one day become another Canadian prime minister. Third, the timing is uncanny. There are photographs (see above) comparing Justin Trudeau with a young Fidel Castro, and evidence that Justin Trudeau's mother, Margaret Trudeau, was in Havana, Cuba, nine months before Justin was born. For example, in Vices article, We Investigated Those Damning Rumors About Fidel Castro Being Justin Trudeaus Real Dad by Drew Brown, Brown does not investigate anything. I am very proud that Canada helped facilitate this, we have long, trusted ties, she said. It aggressively asserts that: "It is a fact the Trudeaus were in the Caribbean in Spring 1971. Castros communist revolution, the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis, considered the worlds closest brush with nuclear war, slammed shut relations between the two countries during the Cold War. He was 6'3, strong, and an athlete who sported the frame of an American football player. Cutting to a CBS News segment from 2017, the Tucker Carlson's audience was treated to an analysis of the sexual tension between Margaret Trudeau and Fidel Castro, with Margaret quoted as describing Fidel as the " sexiest man she had ever met" before admitting that she spent the whole trip to Cuba flirting with the communist despot. ', Mrs. Trudeau, the mother of three boys who are being raised by Trudeau, described the prime minister as 'mean about money' and said every night for two years before the separation she whispered to herself 'Pierre, please give me a divorce.'. She attended Hamilton Junior Secondary School and Delbrook Senior Secondary School in North Vancouver. She is the mother of Justin Trudeau; the 23rd and current prime minister of Canada, the journalist and author Alexandre "Sacha" Trudeau,[2] and Michel Trudeau (now deceased). . She became embroiled in a scandal for having sex with Ted Kennedy (gross). [35], When Pierre Trudeau died in 2000, Margaret was at his bedside with their surviving sons Justin and Alexandre. They met when he was 48 and she was 18. A legendary revolutionary and orator, Mr. Castro made significant improvements to the education and healthcare of his island nation," said Justin Trudeau in 2016. Margaret Trudeau has the distinction of being the only Canadian woman to have been the wife of a prime minister and mother of another prime minister. Fidel Castro, whom she called "very attractive" in her bestselling 2010 memoir, . A local station master, in charge of signaling, has been arrested. In some pictures Fidel had a big patch of wet saliva on his uniform because he had come over early to cuddle the baby.. That being said, the exaggerations and painful avoidance of the storys debunkers are far more suspicious. Margaret Joan Trudeau (ne Sinclair, formerly Kemper; born September 10, 1948) is a Canadian activist. He forcefully deposed a brutal dictator with a band of rag-tag rebels. Dang. He beat the Americans in an armed invasion by personally commanding the battle in a tank. "What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been" She sneaked away from official functions to get high. Perhaps the strangestdenialcomes from the Canadian government itself. They altogether avoid addressing the easily researchable Caribbean trip in Spring 1971. Fidel Castro: My Life. Kasprak does admit Justin Trudeau would have to have been conceived between March 16 and April 22, so why avoid addressing that the Trudeaus within spitting distance of Cuba during that time? First, MargaretTrudeau, Pierre Trudeau, and Fidel Castro were all notoriously sexually promiscuous. The Sinclairs are a leading Illuminati family. He was very proud of what he was doing with their children in establishing them as strong citizens.. In order for his father to be Fidel Castro, his mother would have to be . The sons gave him a photo album of his father's historic 1976 trip when he came with young wife Margaret and infant son Michel in towdelighting an enraptured Fidel and charming this island . This material may not be reproduced without permission. In April 1971, the Trudeaus took a long second honeymoon all around the Caribbean. In terms of public appearances, Castro gave a address to attendees of the first education and culture congress on 1 April 1971. The notion that the Trudeaus and the Castros met in 1971, however, is based what appears to be a willful misreading of a newspaper article by a reddit user: So now that we've established the similar appearance, we need to figure out if it's even possible that Fidel met with Margaret before Justin's conception. [30] She gave many tell-all interviews to Canadian and American magazines, and appeared in two motion pictures. Before even leaving the tarmac, both Trudeaus were showing an unusual amount of familiarity with Fidel considering he was a national leader they just allegedly met. "I know my father was very . Margaret Joan Trudeau ( ne Sinclair, born Sept. 10, 1948) is a Canadian author, actress, photographer, former television talk show hostess and social advocate for people with bipolar disorder, with which she was diagnosed. [36] Speaking in 2010 about her marriage to Trudeau, she said: "Just because our marriage ended didn't mean the love stopped. [3] Her grandmother, Rose Edith (Ivens) Bernard, with whom Trudeau had an especially close relationship, lived in Roberts Creek, British Columbia, in later life, and was from Virden, Manitoba. Come on. Given that Trudeau's mother Margaret . [12] Trudeau explored her mother's family's roots in Singapore during an episode of Who Do You Think You Are?. Kasprak omits discussions of the Trudeaus' Spring 1971 vacation and then relies on its own omission to say Margaret Trudeau could not have . During the campaign, she was involved, but avoided campaigning in public as the Harper campaign's main attack line against Justin was "Just Not Ready" and feared they would suggest her son was "so unready he needs his mummy. Margaret Trudeau smiles as Cuban President Fidel Castro. It is a fact the Trudeaus were in the Caribbean in Spring 1971. Sperm banks barely existed back then. Castro was in tears, Trudeau said, when he learned of Michels death in 1998in a British Columbia avalanche. Not very impressive at all. Margaret Trudeau was a partier who unquestionably had sex with men while married to Pierre. They met when he was 48 and she was 18. Browns so-called investigation altogether missed an obvious Wikipedia article showing the Trudeaus were in the Caribbean in Spring 1971, with citations to theactual reporters covering it. When asked last year about the prospect of marriage, she replied 'We're still both married, each of us with children we're trying to bring up. Third, the timing is uncanny. We ask you to keep your comments relevant and respectful. The story is perfectly plausible. Today we might remember Fidel Castro as an old man, but he was one of the most impressive people in the world back then, especially to fellow Marxists like the Trudeaus. Liberal party organizers considered her a top campaign asset, and sent her off alone to help local candidates in hotly contested ridings while, as critics noted, the wives of Stanfield and Lewis were on the campaign trail but rarely spoke and stood behind their husbands at events. "[23] The couple had three children: Justin (born December 25, 1971), Alexandre (Sacha) (born December 25, 1973), and Michel (October 2, 1975 November 13, 1998). Margaret Trudeau sits on the lanai of her 1920s penthouse, near downtown Montreal, sipping tea. Nobody knows if Pierre objected. Just got my PhD! ISBN 1-416-56250-8. Did Justin Trudeau Signed Multi-Million Dollar NDA To Cover Up Sexual Relations With A Minor? Getty Images. Margaret Joan Trudeau ( ne Sinclair, formerly Kemper; born September 10, 1948) is a Canadian activist. Second, the Trudeaus adored Castro. [5], The Bernards were the descendants of colonists in the Straits Settlements, the Dutch East Indies, and British Malaya, nowadays respectively Singapore, Indonesia, and Malaysia, including Francis James Bernard, a London, England-born Anglo-Irishman whose great-grandfather, Arthur Bernard, was a member of the Irish House of Commons for Bandonbridge, and brother of Francis Bernard, Solicitor-General for Ireland, and ancestor of the Earls of Bandon. Justin Trudeau was born 8 1/2 months later. He was 63, strong, and an athlete who sported the frame of an American football player. From the photos is seems obvious she was attracted to him. The Globe and Mail. On 27 November 2016, two days after Castros death was announced, a user on the Donald Trump subreddit /r/The_Donald presented a theory that Justin Trudeau, the son of former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, was actually the love child of Fidel Castro and Margaret Trudeau. All Rights Reserved, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Trudeau, Three Minutes To Expose Trudeaus Corruption and Profiteering of Covid (video). )[26], Over time, the marriage disintegrated[27] to the point, as recounted in her 1982 book Consequences, Trudeau had affairs with Jack Nicholson, Ryan O'Neal, Lou Rawls, and a friendship with US Senator Ted Kennedy. 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Before even leaving the tarmac, both Trudeaus were showing an unusual amount of familiarity with Fidel considering he was a national leader they just allegedly met. Margaret Trudeau. She befriended Fidel Castro, hung out with the Rolling Stones and partied at Studio 54 in New York. Margaret Trudeau stands withbaby Michel next to Fidel Castro and Pierre Trudeau at the departure ceremony in Havana at the end of the Trudeaus1976 state visit to Cuba. He looked like he could beat up any other word leader, much less any competitor for Margaret Trudeaus attention. Within hours of their first official meeting, Margaret was photographed intimately touching and holding Fidel Castro with both arms. New York, NY: Margaret Trudeau, wife of Canada's Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, does some fancy stepping at Studio 54, a New York City disco, during. "First Lady Wild Child: Margaret Trudeau." Her nude photographs are still widely published on the internet. Almost one million Canadian tourists visit Cuba every year. They all recite the official 1976 travel dates of Pierre Trudeau as Prime Minister as though that proves they never travelled to or around Cuba on any prior date. If anything, the intellectual dishonesty of avoiding the very story makes it seem more convincing. She partied scantily clad at Studio 54. [1] She married Pierre Trudeau, the 15th prime minister of Canada, in 1971; three years after he became prime minister. Mercifully, the editorial standards and style guide of this venerable publication also do not allow me to use the exact verbiage to describe what Pierre's wife, Margaret, her husband's junior . 'I wanted him badly,' she maintained, 'but I didn't need him.'. 8 March 1971. Read more about cookies here. If an infertile old man wanted to have a family, his wife had to do it the old-fashioned way. there is no plausible circumstance during which a meeting between Fidel Castro and Margaret Trudeau could have occurred during the biologically necessary time that accommodates their known public schedules Based on the information Kasprak supplied, this is simply false. He fathered 11 acknowledged children and rumors are he has multiple times that many bastards. And in so doing, many of those Americans happened to notice that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau really, really looks like late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. Marisha Pessl. Due to his age and lack of previous children, rumors began to spread that Pierre was infertile and that Castro and others were the biological fathers of his children. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. It marked a turning point in Canadas relationship with Cuba, but Margaret Trudeau remembers the groundbreaking trip as one in which a dictator melted at the sight of her young baby. And when Castro died, Justin Trudeau was the only leader of the Western World to give him an overwhelmingly positive eulogy without addressing his misdeeds. In order for his father to be Fidel Castro, his mother would have to be somewhere close to Cuba in March and April 1971. Anarticlewritten by Alex Kasprak for leftist fact-checking website Snopes.com declares the story false, but tries to mislead readers about its supporting points. Margaret Trudeau replied that unlike his brothers, Michel "had the greatest friend of all: he had Fidel." Shortly after Trudeau's column appeared, I interviewed a naturalized Australian,. Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail confirms that Pierre and Margaret Trudeau became close friends with Fidel Castro. She had not finished doing drugs or sowing her wild oats. Don't forget, Castro was a hero figure for the international Left in the 1970s. In order for his father to be Fidel Castro, his mother would have to be somewhere close to Cuba in March and April 1971. Castro, Fidel. They divorced in 1984, during his final months in office. Jukic, A.M. "Length of Human Pregnancy and Contributors to Its Natural Variation." The Trudeaus introduced Castro to their children. Having recently become Prime Minister, it suited him to get married and demonstrate stability. We encountered an issue signing you up. Her numerous autobiographical books are filled. Margaret was a 23-year-old wild child who liked doing it the old-fashioned way. They got married when he was 53 and she was 23. Perhaps that was unfair at the time. Friends said at the time her life revolved around her three children -- Sasha, Justin and Michel -- and a growing interest in Japanese cooking. Please try again. [1] She married Pierre Trudeau, the 15th prime minister of Canada, in 1971; three years after he became prime minister. It is a fact the Trudeaus were swingers. Perhaps the strangest denial comes from the Canadian government itself. [47], In 2013, Trudeau received an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from the University of Western Ontario in recognition of her work to combat mental illness.[48]. Sinclair did not recognize him, and she, in fact, thought little of their encounter, but Trudeau was captivated by the carefree "flower child", nearly twenty-nine years younger than he was, and began to pursue her. This event has been chronicled, along with some purportedly saucy comments, in a book that has been cited by many of the Trudeau-truthers to suggest sexual attraction between Margaret and Fidel. If you've been around people who are bipolar, you know it can be a wild ride. Pierre and Margaret Trudeau toured daycares, schools and hospitals with Castro during their visit to the island. Browns so-called investigation altogether missed an obvious Wikipedia article showing the Trudeaus were in the Caribbean in Spring 1971, with citations to the actual reporters covering it. Pierre Trudeau was a bachelor before he became Prime Minister in 1968. 27 March 1971. Castro told them his concern was to give people educations and help get them out of poverty. "Trudeau Weds in Canada." After all it could have been Pierres idea. Sperm banks barely existed back then. For example, in 2018, internet users spread a rumor that Fidel Castros recently deceased son Fidel Angel Castro Diaz-Balart (Fidelito) announced Justin Trudeau was his half-brother in his suicide note. What a fabulous place, the people are filled with life and music and happy in spite of very difficult times. In some of the photos of Pierre Trudeau's closely followed 1976 trip to Cuba with Margaret and four-month-old Michel, Fidel Castro had a telltale stain on the front of his uniform, she remembers . 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