President Donald Trump says the United States will run Venezuela at least temporarily after an audacious military operation plucked leader Nicolás Maduro from power and removed him from the country.
US Officials told CBS News that Trump ordered the attacks on Venezuela. They told CBS that Trump originally wanted the attack to happen on Christmas day.
Something to notice is that Trump waited until the Friday night after Christmas to do the attack. Trump always does unpopular things when the stock market is closed. The US bombed Nigeria on Christmas. The US bombed Iran on a Saturday. Most of the tariffs have been announced on Fridays after the market closed.
Not to sound like a lib going on about checks and balances, but can the president just do that? Just order bombings of sovereign states? I thought you either had to do some finagling like Obama did with his drone strikes, or you have to get approval from Congress?
I know he’ll wiggle out, but it’s kind of wild
I know, I prefaced this with an acknowledgement that it is pretty libbed out to think otherwise. I was asking about the legal side, even though it doesn’t really matter
US Officials told CBS News that Trump ordered the attacks on Venezuela. They told CBS that Trump originally wanted the attack to happen on Christmas day.
https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/venezuela-us-military-strikes-maduro-trump/
Something to notice is that Trump waited until the Friday night after Christmas to do the attack. Trump always does unpopular things when the stock market is closed. The US bombed Nigeria on Christmas. The US bombed Iran on a Saturday. Most of the tariffs have been announced on Fridays after the market closed.
Yeah noticed the same, probably gonna be a fun monday on wall street
Not to sound like a lib going on about checks and balances, but can the president just do that? Just order bombings of sovereign states? I thought you either had to do some finagling like Obama did with his drone strikes, or you have to get approval from Congress?
I know he’ll wiggle out, but it’s kind of wild
That drunken son-of-a-shitpile Hegseth does whatever Trump tells him, so i’m not surprised
I’m not surprised either, but I am uhhh flabbergasted? Flummoxed?
he has two days to bring it to congress, and the stephen miller types would argue the war powers act is unconstitutional
Neat that you can get retroactive approval. Deeply serious country
The constitution is complete garbage not even good enough to wipe my ass with
yes
I know, I prefaced this with an acknowledgement that it is pretty libbed out to think otherwise. I was asking about the legal side, even though it doesn’t really matter
Nice they were too busy bombing the one oil rich nation to bomb the other one at the same time
DTA