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STEPHANOPOULOS: Trump said the US is going to 'run Venezuela.' Under what legal authority? RUBIO: We want a better future for the people of Venezuela STEPHANOPOULOS: I'll ask again -- what is the legal authority? RUBIO: We have court orders

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He said money will flow to the people. This doesn't even happen in America. This is about Chevron expanding their capacity to 100% not 18% They will still sell to China and Ibdia and nothing about drugs. Thats a old pretext to start wars. Ask Panama

He is talking about the court orders that make the seized tankers subject to forfeiture in U.S. court. These orders have nothing to do with running a foreign country.

All true. But this isn’t drug interdiction, it’s for violations of U.S. sanctions laws involving oil transport to sanctioned entities. The interdiction is supposed to based on deceptive flagging or something to get around UNCLOS. Anyway, I’m not vouching for the validity, especially under IL.

In justifying the seizure, Washington has articulated a multifaceted rationale. Bondi- the legal mandate rested on an ‘enforcement warrant’ sanctions targeting the Venezuelan energy sectors. Secretary of Homeland Security Noem framed the seizure within the broader context of the ‘War on Drugs’

Court Orders? Issued By Whom? This Admin. chooses to ignore U.S. Court Orders on a daily minuet by minuet basis, but it's following Court Orders issued by? This Admin. is now executing a Court Order willfully, magically? I'd like to see this "Court Order", I'd also like to the W.H call logs.

Rubio: ‘We have orders from the courts.’ Yeah…..the court ordered authority these guys hold so dearly. I’m just gonna leave this here…..

The 🍊💩 was just riffing and now the sycophants have to cover his stupid A$$! There is no plan for day 2 as it is already here and they are just standing around with their fingers up their A$$! No answers because there are non!

“What we are running is the direction to move moving forward.” An AI-generated Secretary of State would make more sense than this guy.

This is taking things a bit out of context. Rubio is saying that there are court orders to seize oil tankers, and that we're going to use that as leverage to pressure VZ into doing what we want, including running their country for our benefit. Still despicable, utterly despicable, to be clear.

You would think a U.S. Secretary of State would have actual answers to questions anyone could anticipate. Instead he was like a deer in the headlights, albeit a sputtering, pissed off deer. Aren’t diplomats supposed to be even tempered?

The oligarchic Trump regime is a state terrorist blackmailing sovereign countries. No wonder that the US don`t want to stop their buddy Putin killing people in Ukraine. Russia is the blueprint for the dictatorship of the US.

Democrats need to force an impeachment of Hegseth, Rubio and Trump to the floor by getting a discharge petition signed on January 5th. No need for hearings; the deliberate and blatant attack on law, order, and the Constitution is clear. The President has usurped Congress’ Constitutional powers.

I agree, but Republicans control the House, so unless the Democrats can get some of the retiring republicans to side with them, it's not going to happen.

That is where the "discharge petition" comes in. 3Republicans agreeing with the Democrats would force it to the House Floor, overriding Mike Johnson's attempts to squirrel it to die in the Judiciary Committee. That is how the "Epstein Transparency Act" made it to the Floor.

Might pass the House, will never get convictions in the Senate. So, such measures are just a moot point and will probably just trigger MAGA sympathy for 🍊💩. It feels like we are way past procedures. To uproot this malignancy, it's going to take direct participation, not reliance on representation.

The need to discharge everything automatically. Everything. Line up the votes. Healthcare. Impeachments. Restraining the President. All of it. Every day another one. If Johnson doesn’t like it, he can decide he needs to spend more time with his kids.

Congress has allowed the President told usurp it's constitutional powers. Fixed it for you. From what I saw on the morning shows the R's are falling in line, & the D's messaging is weak. I'll be surprised if anything happens tomorrow. This is working really well to bury Jack Smith's testimony.

DoJ: Judicial authority does not extend outside US Territory, which is why we did not turn the plane with Garcia onboard around mid flight. Also DOJ: The court issued an arrest warrant for Madura, so we were legally obligated to pursue him to the ends of the earth, battling any forces stopping us.

About foreign wars Trump was quite loud "America First" he proclaimed to the crowd. “Stay out" he said, again and again” Unless for oil, then we're stepping in Then it’s “freedom,” and we all should be proud.

"our own national interests". Little Marco, you can't take over other countries & pillage their resources for your own national interests. Who the fuck do you think you are? The oil & minerals belong to Venezuelans. The reason there are leftist govts is because people are tired of being ripped off.

So what he's trying to say is we're going to "run" Venezuela by using a naval blockade to coerce the Venezuelan government. The way he put it was clear as mud and then he got all butthurt that nobody understood him. Naturally I expect some or all of that to be either wrong or a lie.

So, if we had an indictment in NYC for any person on any continent, we're ENTITLED to send Delta Force in to rendition them to the US, with no regard whatsoever to thatcountry's independence or to international law. USA is supreme and fully unaccountable to the entire rest of the world???

A war crime does not require a declaration of war in accordance to international law (of which the US convenientrly is not a signatory but still can be subjected to the court's decisions)

Jenny Cohn@jennycohn.bsky.social

Mark Lutter’s Charter Cities Institute (CCI) has been eyeing Venezuela since 2019, has received $$$ from Emergent Ventures (backed by Thiel), & calls Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale a “supporter”. Lutter & I just had an interesting exchange. See posts 40-43…1/ threadreaderapp.com/thread/20074...

Better future for Venezuela?? Nothing against Vebezuela but that is none of your business. Not securing a better future for Americans so how could you possibly secure a better future for Venezuela. Please explain like I'm a pre-schooler.

……. For the people of Venezuela but more importantly for the people of the US. Marco - you know what is right. Start doing what is right. Denounce Trump and leave the administration. Participating in what is evil makes you an accomplice

Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com

I don’t understand how the first reaction from leadership isn’t “This is an impeachable offense. My colleagues must defund Hegseth and begin drafting articles immediately.” Like, even if it doesn’t get done, how are you not planting this flag in the ground immediately?

Some days Rubio is more full of shit than others. Today is one of those days. Does he understand that this will end very badly for him?

I’d love to see the signed orders, in which a justice person commands a military strike to kill innocent people. P.S.: I personally would like to present a better future to US people. Might collaborate with China to take out the actual president and his cabinet? 🤡

Absent a 100 year sleep, how else did I miss the part where a Sovereign Nations Court can issue a legally binding order with standing in another Sovereign Nations jurisdiction ? So Extradition orders no longer required ? A court in Texas issues an arrest warrant for a Bulgarian living in Portugal?

Little Marco’s presidential aspirations are toast! He has been caught in his lies and his allegiance to a predator that he would never allow to be alone with either of his two daughters! In other words… Little Marco is a disgrace👎

Your courts don’t have jurisdiction outside the US. I‘ve never seen more stupid people anywhere than in this administration. Absolute morons, dumb as rocks. Just to be topped by the useless morons who believe a word those idiots say.

How can Rubio have court orders when our courts have no jurisdiction over a sovereign country? We are at the point where Trump and his thugs are just making stuff up so people forget about the Epstein files.

Marco musta took a hit of Donnie's Ketamine to account for the "no longer"blathering & a bunch of bullshit &never answered the question Orders from courts ? Aileen Cannon's court of complicit clowns? 🤣 Oil will be stolen alright And ignored that international laws have been dangerously breached

There will be civil unrest in Venezuela and American soldiers will be killed. But who cares….right? We will get control of there oil. The Billionaire’s will make more money and be happy.

Truth is this administration could care less about the people of Venezuela, he sounds delusional bc they're actively deporting them from here . He'll never be president he's too short 😂

No surprise here. Rubio, Hegseth, Bondi, Bought, Miller, etal would suck Trump’s withered cock if that’s what it took to maintain the opportunity to exercise their demons.

Trump said Venezuela knew it was coming, they were in the "ready position". Not clear then why Rubio couldn't inform Congress.

and SCOTUS made him immune but orders that are illegal are illegal and anyone following them are not immune. Expecting the Dem leadership to state that if in power they will set up the DOJ to investigate those that carry out illegal orders is too much !

Yeah, but even with our Just Us system, it doesn't generally extend past our own borders. Unless Rubio just gave the game away to straight up annex Venezuela.

This Temu version of a "man" is infected by a shit-for-brains brain chip, accompanied by a putrid stench of rotten, K-hole shit that reeks of stanky ass musk & non-rarebit bitch sauce we've all seen before. This isn't new, & sure as hell isn't masculine. True men don't act like Lil fucking bitches.

Gee we just can't nail him down can we? Not an Invasion, despite killing at least 80+ people in a sovereign country by use of USMilitary force without congressional approval. Doing it for the good of the Venezuelans. Doing it to extract a Crime lord cocaine kingpin who kills US folks w.Fentanyl