As One Does…

Trump, who is bombing boats said to carry drug runners, pardons the former president of Honduras who was convicted of supporting one of the largest, most violent drug trafficking conspiracies in the world. @ShawnMcCreesh @anniecorreal @JeffgErnst https://t.co/9yymu0o5XG

— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) November 29, 2025

How do you think he lowered drug prices by 700%?

Professor Jack Goldsmith, head of GW Bush Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC):

"I do not believe that even the Bondi OLC could legally justify the events the Post reported."

"There can be no conceivable way legal justification for what the Washington Post reported." https://t.co/o59GtOImiH

— Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw) November 29, 2025

But unlike the former President of Honduras, they were “narco-terrorists,” according to the Secretary of Defense.

President Trump just said he was going to pardon a man who bragged of "shoving drugs ... right up the noses of the gringos," and who had a man hacked to death with a machete to prevent him squealing. https://t.co/JGU07nWgQC pic.twitter.com/0hEePrWSFX

— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@ReichlinMelnick) November 29, 2025

Which makes them “outlaws” without protection of any law, according to legal expert Stephen Miller.

Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.

The upside is, it might finally move the Congress to reclaim their balls and finally remove a criminal President from office for violating his oath to preserve the Constitution. Because I don’t think he’s going to so much as tell Congress what he’s doing before he announces what he’s done on Truth Social.

I know the War Powers Resolution is not ironclad, but:

The constitutional powers of the President as Commander-in-Chief to introduce United States Armed Forces into hostilities, or into situations where imminent involvement in hostilities is clearly indicated by the circumstances, are exercised only pursuant to (1) a declaration of war, (2) specific statutory authorization, or (3) a national emergency created by attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions, or its armed forces. (Pub. L. 93–148, §2, Nov. 7, 1973, 87 Stat. 555.)

It's going to take some very twisted legal reasoning to say Trump can declare war in Venezuela because. And the nice thing about impeachment is that it doesn’t rely on legal reasoning.  Of course it might have to wait for a new Congress. But it will certainly inspire voters for Democrats. Unless Trump can cook up a Tonkin Gulf incident, or even a Maine blowing up in an American harbor, I don’t see him getting the nation to rally ‘round the flag. At this point, I don’t think anything short of a Pearl Harbor would do that.

Trump appears to think he just needs Truth Social.

The deranged madman now threatens to blow up commercial airliners flying in and out of Venezuela. pic.twitter.com/TGLtr2ERwu

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) November 29, 2025

The House and Senate don’t seem too charmed with the story about Hegseth ordering the death of survivors. It may end up being all for show, but it doesn’t foreshadow complete indifference for making the Department of War live up to Trump’s name for it.