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However the Trump administration now tries to justify its strikes on private boats in the Caribbean, nothing it can say magically unlocks legal authority to use lethal force against civilians. Congress must rein in this egregious abuse of power.

msnbc.comTrump's boat strikes are killing potentially innocent civilians. They must be stopped.On Tuesday, President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. military had killed six people in a strike on a boat that, Trump said, was “trafficking narcotics.”

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Republicans control all three branches of government and the government remains closed while Trump plays golf and entertained tech bros on Thursday flogging his newest vanity project, the Arc d’Trump. Trump can’t be bothered with anything that’s not going to enrich him or gain him media coverage.

Even framing of the story from cnbc shows how the media softens and normalizing this administration. They are not POTENTIALLY innocent. They are innocent They have not been arrested, tried, or convicted of a crime. They are in innocent people who have been murdered by the USA government

Even IF they WEREN'T perfectly innocent, Trump can't randomly declare war on whatever he wants, wherever he wants. If you're doing law enforcement on seafaring smugglers, you just track them to US waters and then apprehend them. Bombing foreign nationals in foreign waters is not law enforcement.