Trump admin officials at this Venezuela regime change press conference include: SecDef Hegseth, SecState Rubio, CIA Director Ratcliffe, Chairman Caine, and...Stephen Miller. NOT present -- the US Director of National Intelligence who tweeted the message below in 2019.
If you believe the attack on Venezuela and kidnap of Maduro is about drugs, I genuinely don't know how to help you. Trump just pardoned Juan Orlando Hernandez who was an ACTUAL drug trafficker because his tech oligarch buddies were mad about their libertarian crypto fiefdom Prospera being in jeopardy. This is about plunder and power.
It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month.
It’s about oil and regime change.
And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from Epstein + skyrocketing healthcare costs.
The White House is confirming U.S. military operations in Venezuela tonight. Let us be clear: these strikes are illegal. The President does not have the authority to declare war or undertake large-scale military operations without Congress. Congress must act to rein him in. Immediately.
Secretaries Rubio and Hegseth looked every Senator in the eye a few weeks ago and said this wasn’t about regime change. I didn’t trust them then and we see now that they blatantly lied to Congress. Trump rejected our Constitutionally required approval process for armed conflict because the Administration knows the American people overwhelmingly reject risks pulling our nation into another war.
This strike doesn't represent strength. It's not sound foreign policy. It puts Americans at risk in Venezuela and the region, and it sends a horrible and disturbing signal to other powerful leaders across the globe that targeting a head of state is an acceptable policy for the U.S. government. This will further damage our reputation – already hurt by Trump’s policies around the world – and only isolate us in a time when we need our friends and allies more than ever.
None of that water made it to L.A. Instead, it flooded Central Valley farmland and wiped out the summer water supply those farmers will need when temperatures hit 100-plus degrees
Under the law, members of Congress can inspect immigration facilities. It's a critical oversight role.
Congresswoman McIver was doing her job.
Trump's former personal attorney weaponizing the justice system is right out of the authoritarian playbook. We won't be intimidated.
KIM: Can you confirm that you understand that any suspension of habeas corpus requires an act of Congress?
NOEM: President Lincoln executed habeas corpus in the past with a retroactive action of Congress
KIM: Do you know what section of the Constitution the suspension clause of habeas corpus is in?
NOEM: I do not. Nope.
KIM: Do you know which article is it in?
NOEM: I do not, sir