Trump wants us to think that the kidnapping and trial of Venezuela’s president is a “law enforcement” action. In reality, it is an illegal kidnapping and an act of war.
Trump has appointed himself judge, jury and executioner across the entire western hemisphere. First he started blowing up small boats, saying with no evidence that they were transporting drugs. And now he has carried out an invasion of Venezuela to abduct the nation’s leader.
What if another country did this to the United States? Imagine what the reaction would be if a prosecutor in another country declared that a politician in the United States was guilty of a crime, and then sent its army into the United States – killing dozens of people before flying away with the elected official in shackles.
Any nation would treat something like this as an act of war. A prosecutor in another country saying it was justified would not matter. Pam Bondi is not the Attorney General of the whole world.
Besides, the accusations against Maduro are completely baseless. Every year, the DEA puts out a report summarizing the major drug threats facing the country. But the so-called cartel that Trump alleges that Maduro leads is not in it – because it does not exist and has only recently been made up. If an entire nation was governed by a drug trafficking gang, wouldn’t that at least merit a passing mention in the DEA’s big report?
The U.S. government has no legal right to put Maduro on trial. It’s another example of Trump assigning himself the power to do anything he wants, wherever he wants. He’s made it perfectly clear in public that this is really all about stealing Venezuela’s oil. The case against Maduro should be immediately thrown out.
