Philip Bump offers two instructive graphics about the "peace president's" actions in 2025, one of them a posting on BlueSky by Wesley Morgan. The graphics list all of Trump's combat actions in 2025 and show all the places in the world where he has mounted military attacks.
"Less than three days ago, Congress released Special Counsel Jack Smith’s powerful testimony insisting he had obtained the evidence to prove 'beyond a reasonable doubt' that Donald Trump 'engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power.'”
~ Steven Beschloss
#Trump #Venezuela #war #military #oil #Maduro #media #crime #coup
/21
https://www.americaamerica.news/p/can-we-further-weaken-trumps-criminal
"The horrific attack on Venezuela overnight puts the U.S. in the same camp as Russia.
An undeclared, unprovoked, and illegal war designed to, well, we can only guess—though Donald Trump and JD Vance have seemed to concede this was a war for oil—puts the United States on the same moral and legal footing as Russia, which invaded its neighbor in a war of pure aggression."
~ Jennifer Rubin
#Trump #Venezuela #war #military #oil #Maduro #Putin #Russia
/23
"The U.S. president this weekend attacked a sovereign nation, killed its citizens, and kidnapped its leader. …
It is hard not to conclude that the action is a 'wag the dog moment' aimed at distracting the public from the Epstein files, the rotten economy, and Trump’s declining health."
#Trump #Venezuela #war #military #oil #Maduro #Putin #Russia
/24
"It is likely concerns that this is about oil—Maduro and his predecessor Hugo Chavez nationalized oil fields in the country and Trump has repeatedly railed against 'stolen oil'—will continue to surface. On Fox News this morning, Trump said, 'When you do oil everything follow.'”
~ Joyce Vance
#Trump #Venezuela #war #military #oil #Maduro
/25
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/trump-strikes-venezuela-arrests-president
"Given his pardon of Juan Orlando Hernández, Trump's kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro cannot be regarded as a legitimate fight against drug trafficking. Rather, it's about getting a piece of the action."
~ Marcy Wheeler
#Trump #Venezuela #war #military #oil #Maduro
/26
https://www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/03/trumps-selective-drug-enforcement-in-latin-america/
