Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) said that the Trump administration’s military strike on a Venezuelan boat was another example of the president “breaking laws.”
Host Kristen Welker said, “I want to start off on some big news this week. President Trump launched a strike against a Venezuelan boat he alleges was carrying a large amount of drugs. Here is the video he posted. Overnight, the vice president dismissed those who called it a war crime. Senator Rand Paul said, ‘What a despicable and thoughtless sentiment it is to glorify killing someone without a trial.’ Senator, do you think that the president has the authority to unilaterally strike a boat carrying alleged drug smugglers?”
Booker said, “No, he doesn’t. It is a massive expansion of presidential authority a