“I am not in favor of seizing these ocean liners. I am not in favor of blowing up these ships of unarmed people suspected of being drug traffickers. I am not in favor of any of that,” Paul told ABC News.
“The Constitution gives Congress, and Congress alone, the power to declare war. Trump’s illegal attacks by ships and threats of a land invasion of Venezuela constitute a clear abuse of power. I have introduced a bipartisan resolution on war powers to stop Trump from starting another endless war,” Kaine stated in a post on X.
In response to this stance, Trump replied that does not need congressional authorization to order bombings against drug trafficking interests located in Venezuelan territory.
Now regarding the seized ships, Paul also described the administration's policy for addressing alleged drug trafficking as “strange and contradictory.”
“And then why is former President Hernandez of Honduras, who was sentenced to 45 years in prison, being released?... So, some narco-terrorists are fine, and other narco-terrorists we're going to blow up. And then, some of them, if they aren't designated terrorists, we can arrest them,” he questioned.
