During a two-hour interview with The New York Times on Jan. 8, President Donald Trump, who has bombed boats leaving Venezuela and had that country’s President Nicolás Maduro captured and brought to the U.S. for trial, was asked if there are any limits to his power. “Yeah,” Trump grunted inelegantly. “There is one thing. My own morality. My … Read more
1. US is in Venezuela for the long haul When asked how long he would be “running Venezuela”, Trump said it would be “much longer” than a year. After Trump initially claimed that the US was running the South American country, in the hours after the operation that seized President Nicolás Maduro, members of Trump’s … Read more
Donald Trump has said ‘I don’t need international law” and that his power is limited only by his “own morality”. In a new interview with the New York Times, Trump said the only constraint to his power as president of the US is “my own morality, my own mind”. “It’s the only thing that can … Read more
US President Donald Trump said in an interview published Thursday that his “own morality” was the only constraint on his power to order military actions around the world. Donald Trump on the limits to his power (AP) Trump’s comments to The New York Times came days after he launched a lightning operation to topple Venezuelan … Read more