Donald Trump and maga Republicans must stop the failures in the unpopular Trumpzi cruelty agenda
Editorial: Homicide on the high seas published in The Times Union newspaper in New York state.
Donald Trump is sending U.S. military forces into the Caribbean and the Pacific Ocean to blow up small boats suspected, without evidence, of transporting drugs.
Enablers of evil Donald Trump also includes a Congress controlled by Trump’s party that has been timid when it comes to even questioning his violations of laws such the Constitution's vesting the power to declare war with Congress, not with the president.
Donald Trump is seriously mentally ill.
"Trump clearly has his eye on projecting power".
He is is ordering extra-judicial killings of suspected drug dealers; Congress needs to make clear that he lacks the power to declare war.
Donald Trump is sending U.S. military forces into the Caribbean and the Pacific Ocean to blow up small boats suspected, without evidence, of transporting drugs.
And, in a style entirely befitting an administration run by a former reality show star and a military led by a preening ex-Fox (Fake❗) News personality, the Trump administration released video of the obliteration of the small craft for viewers to enjoy or recoil from, depending on one’s thirst for blood and stomach for state-sanctioned homicide.
Donald Trump claims his authority allows him to declare a state of armed conflict with drug cartels, which he designated as “Foreign Terrorist Organizations” in an executive order on his first day in office and has since expanded. He says these groups “present an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States.”
Rather than treat drug trafficking as an international criminal matter and work cooperatively with foreign governments to interdict traffic outside the U.S., Donald Trump is deploying the military to go after suspected traffickers in international waters, and possibly even in other nations’ territorial waters. More than 50 people have been murdered in such strikes so far — for allegedly committing a crime that is not a death-penalty-eligible offense.
The strategy drew condemnation from Columbian President Gustavo Petro after the death of a man he said was a lifelong fisherman on a boat that was adrift. Mr. Petro called it murder; rather than offer evidence to defend his actions, Donald. Trump said he would cut U.S. assistance to and impose new tariffs on Columbia.
U.S. officials have presented no substantial proof to the public that the people being killed are drug traffickers. We’re to take the word of an administration that’s notoriously lax with facts as it cites “intelligence.”
The broader picture here can’t be ignored. Donald Trump has deployed warships, fighter jets and troops to the Caribbean as he tries to force out Venezuela’s president, Nicholas Maduro.
Donald Trump claims his authority allows him to declare a state of armed conflict with drug cartels, which he designated as “Foreign Terrorist Organizations” in an executive order on his first day in office and has since expanded. He says these groups “present an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States.”
Rather than treat drug trafficking as an international criminal matter and work cooperatively with foreign governments to interdict traffic outside the U.S., Donald Trump is deploying the military to go after suspected traffickers in international waters, and possibly even in other nations’ territorial waters. More than 50 people have been murdered in such strikes so far — for allegedly committing a crime that is not a death-penalty-eligible offense.
The strategy drew condemnation from Columbian President Gustavo Petro after the death of a man he said was a lifelong fisherman on a boat that was adrift. Mr. Petro called it murder; rather than offer evidence to defend his actions, Donald. Trump said he would cut U.S. assistance to and impose new tariffs on Columbia.
U.S. officials have presented no substantial proof to the public that the people being killed are drug traffickers. We’re to take the word of an administration that’s notoriously lax with facts as it cites “intelligence.”
The broader picture here can’t be ignored. Donald Trump has deployed warships, fighter jets and troops to the Caribbean as he tries to force out Venezuela’s president, Nicholas Maduro.
In fact, Donald Trump is actually planning a 💲20 billion bailout for Argentina — contingent on his favored political candidates remaining in power. To the north, Mr. Trump has been hostile to Canada and talked about annexing Greenland.
Donald Trump clearly has his eye on projecting (illegal❗) power — that morally neutral commodity — throughout the Western hemisphere, regardless of the alliances and friendships it risks. He's enabled by an atmosphere of fear and intimidation in a government (and more specifically a military establishment) that the president and his lieutenants have been purging of career lawyers, inspectors general and other officials and watchdogs who would normally warn against potentially illegal actions.
Donald Trump clearly has his eye on projecting (illegal❗) power — that morally neutral commodity — throughout the Western hemisphere, regardless of the alliances and friendships it risks. He's enabled by an atmosphere of fear and intimidation in a government (and more specifically a military establishment) that the president and his lieutenants have been purging of career lawyers, inspectors general and other officials and watchdogs who would normally warn against potentially illegal actions.
But, Congressional Republicans seem as unbothered with Donald Trump’s violation of that document, because he is eager to trample it. They had best remind him about who declares war in this republic — and pronto, ❗ before he starts a much bigger one than the military equivalent of shooting fish in a barrel.
#ImpeachTrumpAgain #Impeach25thAmendment NOW❗
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