"In 2020, when Utah senator Mitt Romney voted to convict Donald Trump on one of the charges on which the House impeached him, Trump tweeted a video calling him a "Democrat secret asset" who "tried to infiltrate Trump's administration" while "posing as a Republican." Romney was the Republican Party's 2012 presidential nominee. Which made me think: So, my Trump-supporting friends, did you believe that? Is Mitt Romney a Democrat secret asset? Hmmm ..."
"John Yoo, the former deputy assistant attorney general under President George W. Bush who wrote the legal justification for torture during the war on terror, pushed back on the extreme powers Trump is claiming to kill those he labels terrorists. "There has to be a line between crime and war," Yoo said. "We can't just consider anything that harms the country to be a matter for the military. Because that could potentially include every crime.""
In 2020, Senator Mitt Romney voted to convict Donald Trump on one House impeachment charge, and Trump responded by tweeting a video calling Romney a "Democrat secret asset" who "tried to infiltrate Trump's administration" while "posing as a Republican." Recent administration decisions authorized the military to destroy three Venezuelan boats that may have been operated by drug smugglers, raising legal questions about using military force instead of law enforcement against alleged smugglers from a nation with which the United States is not at war. John Yoo argued that a line must exist between crime and war and warned against treating all harms as military matters.
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