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LEGALITY ANGLE “WILDLY ILLEGAL”: TRUMP SAYS HE SEIZED MADURO AFTER U.S. STRIKE ON VENEZUELA 👉 Find out why lawmakers are sounding the alarm.
LEGALITY ANGLE
“WILDLY ILLEGAL”: TRUMP SAYS HE SEIZED MADURO AFTER U.S. STRIKE ON VENEZUELA
👉 Find out why lawmakers are sounding the alarm.
🚨 TRUMP CAPTURES MADURO AFTER BOMBING VENEZUELA – SENATOR: “IT’S WILDLY ILLEGAL.”
Americans woke up today to an extraordinary claim from the President of the United States: Donald Trump says U.S. forces bombed Venezuela overnight and captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, removing him from the country.
This was not leaked reporting. It was not anonymous sourcing. It was Trump himself announcing it.
And If true it represents one of the most extreme and reckless uses of U.S. military power in modern history.
There has been no declaration of war. There has been no authorization from Congress. There has been no public explanation of an imminent threat to the United States. Yet Trump claims to have carried out a direct military strike against a sovereign nation and seized its head of state.
That is not how the Constitution works.
More than a month ago, on November 16, 2025, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy warned exactly where this road leads. When asked about possible U.S. military action against Venezuela, Murphy said it would be “wildly illegal,” calling it a transparent effort to distract the public from rising prices and mounting scandals at home.
That warning now looks chillingly prescient.
This is not about defending democracy. This is not about protecting Americans. This is not about international law. This is about a president who believes he can use military force to change the subject whenever accountability closes in.
History is very clear about moments like this. When leaders face political pressure at home and manufacture foreign crises abroad, the result is instability, escalation, and innocent people paying the price for political desperation.
If Trump believes he has the authority to bomb another country and capture its president, he must present that authority publicly and legally. He must answer to Congress. He must answer to the Constitution. And he must answer to the American people.
If he cannot do that, then this is not strength.
It is lawlessness.
And it is exactly what Americans were warned about.