America’s criminal president, convicted felon Donald Trump, is falling to the lowest point ever in his presidency in new polls with almost three-quarters of all voters disapproving of an unconstitutional war with Iran, a damaged economy with spiraling gas prices, rampant inflation on groceries and other goods.
Trump, a civil-court-certified sexual predator, accused rapist of women and children commits war crimes without legal authority or congressional approval.
To make matters worse, the Trump and his co-conspirator “secretary of war” Pete Hegseth are waging a lawless series of attacks on open seas.
Columnist Max Boot of The Washington Post writes:
When the U.S. armed forces began blowing up suspected “drug boats” on Sept. 2, 2025, it was widely seen as a way not just to fight the war on drugs but also to put pressure on Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, who was in league with drug traffickers. Many expected that the lawless strikes — which amount to killing suspected criminals without trial — would end after U.S. forces captured Maduro at the beginning of the year.
There was, indeed, a pause in such operations. After conducting the 34th and 35th boat strikes on Dec. 31, the military did not carry out another one until Jan. 23. But since then, the strikes have ramped up again. At least 19 more strikes were carried out between Jan. 23 and April 26 — an average of one every five days. That’s slightly slower than the rate before Maduro’s capture (one strike every 3½ days), but it’s still a significant tempo. In all, according to the Just Security website, there have been at least 55 strikes, with 174 reported killed, 11 missing and four known survivors.
It has now become routine for U.S. Southern Command to post grainy videos online of boats being blown up, along with claims that “male narco-terrorists were killed,” even though the administration has not offered any evidence that even one of the people incinerated by U.S. firepower was engaged in drug trafficking, much less in terrorism. The administration is so averse to trying to prove wrongdoing in court that, when suspects survive a strike, they are released rather than arrested. Apparently, there is a secret Justice Department opinion justifying the strikes based on the fanciful premise that drug cartels are waging war on the United States.
Why the increase in boat strikes? Partly it’s a matter of more resources: The New York Times reports that the U.S. military has assigned more fixed-wing attack aircraft and MQ-9 Reaper drones to U.S. bases in El Salvador and Puerto Rico as part of Operation Southern Spear.
But there is also a greater willingness by the U.S. armed forces to engage in illegal conduct. Echoing the view of many legal experts, Brian Finucane, a former State Department legal adviser, told me, “These boat strikes — premeditated killings outside of armed conflict — implicate U.S. criminal laws prohibiting murder on the high seas, conspiracy to commit murder outside the United States, and murder under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.” Even many conservative legal scholars agree that, as John Yoo wrote in The Post in September, the boat strikes “violate American law and the Constitution.”
The American president has been unambiguous in his disdain for international law. In a two-hour Oval Office interview in January with The New York Times, Mr. Trump declared, “I don’t need international law.” When asked whether there was any limit on his global powers, he said, “Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality.”
Mr. Trump’s aides are onboard. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said last month that “we will keep pushing, keep advancing, no quarter, no mercy for our enemies.” A “no quarter” order — to kill all enemy soldiers, even those who are badly injured or who surrender — is a war crime under international law and in the U.S. military code.
One hundred legal experts and lawyers voiced their concerns in an open letter published by Just Security last week. They said that the conduct of the war and rhetoric of U.S. officials “raise serious concerns about violations of international humanitarian law, including potential war crimes.”
They pointed out that the very act of the United States’ attacking Iran is a violation of the U.N. Charter, since there is no evidence Mr. Trump was acting to defend his country against an imminent threat. And the president did not get congressional authorization for the war, in violation of the Constitution.
“It’s something so clearly unlawful and deeply misguided,” said Oona A. Hathaway, a Yale law professor who co-wrote the letter and has worked as a special counsel at the Pentagon. “It’s hard to fathom how much the rules have been completely thrown out.”
Vice Chair of the Democratic Caucus Ted Lieu (D-CA) tells reporters the Epstein files contain allegations that President Trump raped and threatened to kill children. He says House Republicans are trying to “distract” from those allegations by seeking testimony on Epstein from former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. He also says the Justice Department “violated the privacy” of victims by failing to redact some explicit images from the files and that Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche should resign.
Trump has no morality, no humanity or belief that any laws apply to him and his criminal conduct as president. He is the most dangerous domestic terrorist threatening America and the world.
