I am no fan of President Nicolás Maduro, the leader of Venezuela, that is for sure. The people of Venezuela have been leaving in droves, despite the huge oil reserves, Maduro has left his nation impoverished. But then again, if you are an American citizen, will you be better off after The Big Beautiful Bill where your health insurance premiums rise to unsustainable levels? It is all relative I guess.

The question I ask? Is it legal for the President of the United States to order a military raid on a sovereign country, capture their leader and bring them back to the United States for trial under US law? It would be fair to determine that Congress did not authorise this operation. Therefore, Donald Trump acted without Congressional approval, has Donald Trump exceeded the executive powers of the presidency? We all know Donald Trump is an authoritarian president, he does not respect or follow the Constitution of the United States, this is just another example of his appalling contempt for the American people and judicial processes.

Just a little over a week ago, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was in Mar-a-Lago meeting with President Trump to negotiate an end to the war. This is when President Putin phoned Trump and complained that Ukraine had conducted a drone attack on Putin’s residence in the Novgorod region. Donald Trump, not waiting for a CIA assessment, immediately called a press conference and remarked “I don’t like it. It’s not good” describing himself as “very angry.” Every military analyst knows Putin’s residences are heavily protected with missile defences, somewhat ironic as the rest of the country is left exposed. This is actually great for Ukraine as they can target gaps in Russian air defences and avoid his heavily protected residences.

Whilst Trump conceded that it was possible it was a false flag attack, Trump replied “But President Putin told me this morning it did.” The Russians provided no evidence of a drone attack, Putin asked Trump to trust him on this one. Trump was angry that Putin’s private residence had been [allegedly] attacked, but his anger quickly died down when Maduro’s private residence was attacked by US forces and the President of a sovereign nation and his wife were taken prisoner and brought to the United States for trial under US law. Am I the only person seeing the hypocrisy here?