There is no doubt Justin Trudeau is Fidel Castro’s son; no one has ‘debunked’ anything
Why would Pierre Trudeau choose anyone else to be the biological father of his children?
Images of Justin Trudeau (color) and Fidel Castro (black & white) show the striking resemblance of the men who are likely father and son. On the right are the pair at 23, on the left at age 51. (Photo Montage: Rachel Bowman/America’s Conservative Voice) _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
In the age of sloppy journalism, few authors are sloppier than those who claim they have debunked the story that Fidel Castro is Justin Trudeau’s biological father. They recite the Canadian governments’ official travel dates to Cuba as gospel, but painstakingly avoid the damning evidence of a well-documents personal trip by Pierre and Margaret Trudeau to the Caribbean in 1971 ― described at the time as a “second honeymoon.”
It is a fact the Trudeaus adored Castro. It is a fact the Trudeaus were swingers. This is the rest of what you need to know.
Pierre and Margaret Trudeau, as well as Fidel Castro, were all notoriously sexually promiscuous. Margaret Trudeau was a partier who unquestionably had sex with men while married to Pierre. Nobody knows if Pierre objected. They met when he was 48 and she was 18. They got married when he was 53 and she was 23. Their marriage surprised Canada because Pierre had been a lifelong playboy with no wife or children.
He would be turning 60 when she was 30. She publicly states today she suffered from bipolar disorder and self-control issues. She smuggled drugs in the Prime Minister’s official government luggage. She sneaked away from official functions to get high. She partied, scantily clad, at Studio 54. She became embroiled in a scandal for having sex with Ted Kennedy. According to Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones, Pierre filed for separation after she began an affair with Ronnie Wood. The list goes on.
Actress Margot Kidder urged Pierre Trudeau to campaign for world peace during his final months in office in 1984. She and the Prime Minister, who had an open marriage with his wife Margaret, had a lengthy affair that was carried out publicly. (Photo: Toronto Sun Archives) _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Pierre Trudeau slept around too. His partners included actress Margot Kidder (Superman, Superman II), classical guitarist Liona Boyd, and actress Kim Cattrall. All have candidly said they slept with him at some time. Pierre Trudeau biographer John English (“Just Watch Me: The Life of Pierre Elliot Trudeau 1968–2000”) states the “evidence is overwhelming” that he had sex multiple times with Barbara Streisand. The record is not immediately clear how much of that happened before the couple was separated, but before she moved out of the house he was entertaining three women downstairs at a time:
“He often invited two girlfriends to the same event,” English wrote in his book. “Allan Gotlieb, his ambassador to Washington, complained about one dinner he hosted for Mr. Trudeau because he had three girlfriends there … he carried on downstairs even though Margaret [while separated] was still in residence upstairs.”
Fidel Castro put them both to shame. His sexual appetite was so legendary this article cannot efficiently capture it. Suffice it to say, he endeavored to have sex with two new women every day and sent aides to fetch them. He fathered 11 acknowledged children and rumors are he had many more illegitimate children than that.
The Trudeaus, their aides and friends all attested to their admiration of the Cuban dictator. According to English’s biography of Pierre, they were charmed by Castro and made several trips to embargo-era Cuba just to see him.
The timing of Justin’s birth is uncanny. It is here the writers who claim to have debunked the story gloss over the facts and intentionally mislead readers. Justin Trudeau was born on Christmas day, 1971. In order for his father to be Fidel Castro, his mother would have to be somewhere close to Cuba in March and April 1971.
She was.
In April 1971, the Trudeaus took a long “second honeymoon” all around the Caribbean. According to Wikipedia, they visited one island the Trudeaus declined to disclose to the media, forbidding reporters to accompany them. It is the only island they did not disclose. From Wikipedia:
Footnote 19 of the same Wikipedia article cites to a April 13, 1971 article from The Ottawa Journal. The article states that the Trudeaus were visiting an unidentified island in the Caribbean and wanted the press to give them privacy:
To be clear: They disclosed all the other locations they visited but asked the press for privacy when they went to the “unidentified” island. Though we and others have been unable to determine what island it was, there were several in the Caribbean to which Castro could travel without fear of his movements being disclosed.
Justin Trudeau was born 8 1/2 months later.
In 1976, Pierre eagerly became the first NATO leader to travel to Cuba, with Margaret accompanying him. Before even leaving the tarmac, both Trudeaus were showing an unusual amount of familiarity with Castro. This apparent friendship was odd, given they supposedly had just met the Cuban dictator.
Within hours of their first official meeting ― but not their first ― Margaret was photographed intimately touching and holding Fidel Castro with both arms. The Trudeaus announced they had become fast friends with the dictator and sang his praises during the height of his human rights violations. (Photo: Cuban National Archives) _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
In 2000, Castro made a rare appearance out of Cuba to attend Pierre’s funeral in Canada. On his visit, Margaret welcomed the leader at his hotel on behalf of the Trudeaus. When Castro died, Justin Trudeau was the only leader of the Western World to give him an overwhelmingly positive eulogy while dismissing his brutal rule as “troubling.”
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. Perhaps that was unfair at the time. But then Justin Trudeau improbably grew up to look like this:
And this:
And this:
But not this:
So, what is all this talk about “debunking” the claim? It could not be less compelling. Every one of the articles supposedly debunking Castro’s paternity of Justin Trudeau avoid addressing the Caribbean trip altogether. For example, in Vice’s article, “We Investigated Those Damning Rumors About Fidel Castro Being Justin Trudeau’s Real Dad” by Drew Brown, who in reality does not investigate anything. He just mocks the story before telling an outright lie.
“Oh, wait. Justin was born December 25, 1971, nine months after Pierre and Margaret’s honeymoon in British Columbia,” he wrote, “and long before the couple traveled to Cuba. Dang. I guess you actually can’t believe everything that semi-professional agitators post on the internet.”
That fails to rise to the level of an impressive argument. It fails to rise to the level of an argument at all. Brown’s so-called ‘investigation’ altogether missed the Wikipedia article showing the Trudeaus were in the Caribbean in Spring 1971, with citations to the actual reporters covering it. In fact, as noted, he falsely claimed their “second honeymoon” was in British Columbia!
His uncited claim that Justin was born “long before the couple traveled to Cuba” is just a recitation of the official dates Trudeau visited in his official capacity as prime minister when Justin was five years old. He provides no evidence the Trudeaus had never been there before, no evidence they had not met Castro before, no evidence Castro never traveled to see them in the Caribbean. He altogether avoids the story he claims he disproved and then tries to do a mic drop. Not very impressive at all.
All of the debunking articles follow that same format. They all come from left-leaning websites who sympathize with Trudeau. They all recite the official 1976 travel dates of Pierre Trudeau as Prime Minister as though that proves they never traveled to or around Cuba on any prior date.
Most altogether avoid addressing the easily researchable Caribbean trip in Spring 1971, and those who recently have been forced to deal with that truth have further tried to dispel it by claiming the Trudeaus were “1,000 miles from Cuba,” as though Castro couldn’t travel out of his country.
That is strange for authors who claim to have the truth on their sides. Bottom line, nothing has been debunked. If anything, the intellectual dishonesty of avoiding the very story makes it seem more convincing.
That is not to say there are no exaggerations and falsehoods supporting the story. But they are not nearly so avoidant or look so desperate to kill a story. For example, in 2018, internet users spread a rumor that Fidel Castro’s recently deceased son Fidel Angel Castro Diaz-Balart (“Fidelito”) announced Justin Trudeau was his half-brother in his suicide note.
Father meets son? Before he was Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau met Cuban dictator Fidel Castro ― long suspected of being the Canadian politician’s biological father ― at a state gathering in 2013. (Photo: Monique Thierry/Montreal Gazette) _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
No major news sources support that claim and researching it leads to a dead-end. Another website gives a devastatingly compelling argument in favor of the story before sabotaging all its credibility by claiming Margaret Trudeau’s family were members of the Illuminati.
For America’s Conservative Voice, that is a total non-starter.
That being said, the exaggerations and painful avoidance of the self-styled “investigators” of the story are far more suspicious. An article written by Alex Kasprak for “fact-checking” website Snopes.com declares the story “false,” but tries to mislead readers about its supporting points
Kasprak omits discussions of the Trudeaus’ Spring 1971 vacation and then relies on its own omission to say Margaret Trudeau could not have absconded from Canada at the time. That repeats the lie of many other articles that she was in Canada. She was not.
Kasprak also suggests Margaret would have to sneak away from Pierre, but the premise that Pierre objected is not necessary to the story. They were swingers, remember? Maybe is was even Pierre’s idea. Kasprak does admit Justin Trudeau would have to have been conceived “between March 16 and April 22,” so why avoid addressing that the Trudeaus were in the Caribbean at that time?
Similarly, AP News and affiliates write headlines such as “No, Fidel Castro is not Canada PM Trudeau’s father,” yet their articles simply recount the improbability of the Diaz-Balart suicide note. Each so-called debunker makes a bold claim and then avoids the very story they claim to debunk.
Perhaps the strangest denial comes from the Canadian government itself. In February 2018, the Diaz-Balart rumor prompted the Canadian government to publicly deny the story. Federal governments in Western civilizations do not deny urban legends. The story clearly got under the skin of someone in the Canadian government ― probably Justin himself. Why would anyone in Canadian government be so sensitive to a mere internet rumor that no one believed?
The story is perfectly plausible. Pierre was an aging playboy who had fathered no known offspring despite being sexually promiscuous his whole adult life. Having recently become Prime Minister, it suited him to get married and demonstrate stability. He evidently wanted a family because that is exactly what he started. Sperm banks barely existed back then. If an infertile old man wanted to have a family, his wife had to do it the old-fashioned way.
Margaret was a 23-year-old wild child who liked doing it the old-fashioned way. She had not finished doing drugs or sowing her wild oats. She was clearly attracted to men in positions of power, even some who were old and unattractive. If Ted Kennedy met her qualifications as a sexual partner, Castro was bigger, stronger, thinner, handsomer, and more powerful. From the photos is seems obvious she was attracted to him.
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. He forcefully deposed a brutal dictator with a band of rag-tag rebels. He turned Cuba into the Western world’s first Marxist country. He beat the Americans in an armed invasion by personally commanding the battle from a tank one the front lines.
He survived CIA coups and assassination attempts. He outlived two Kennedy brothers behind those attempts. He was smart, charming, and funny. He was 6'3”, strong, and an athlete who sported the frame of an American football player. He looked like he could beat up any other word leader, much less any competitor for Margaret Trudeau’s attention. He was full of bravado, confidence, and masculinity. He smoked cigars like a baller.
Why would Pierre Trudeau choose anyone else to be the biological father of his children?
Mike Nichols is an advocate of the counterrevolution with a four-step plan to defeat Leftist Fascism: We Organize. We Stand. We Resist. We Fight. He is a regular contributor to several conservative news websites and has a regular blog and Facebook presence at Americas Conservative Voice-Facebook.