In response to press questions about his administration’s escalating attacks on fishing boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific that were allegedly involved in drug trafficking, President Donald Trump drew a rather jarring distinction, as CNN reports :

Trump on Thursday insisted that he could continue to launch strikes against alleged drug traffickers without Congress first passing an official declaration of war. “I’m not going to necessarily ask for a declaration of war,” he said. “I think we’re just going to kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. Okay? We’re going to kill them, you know, they’re going to be, like, dead.”

It’s clear that Trump’s intention was to rule out any congressional interference with his constitutionally dubious use of military force in a strug

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