{"id":571,"date":"2026-01-18T14:37:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T22:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brentandersonart.com\/site\/?p=571"},"modified":"2026-01-18T14:37:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T22:37:53","slug":"clearing-the-desktop-dept-in-venezuela-trump-exercized-presidents-power-to-make-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brentandersonart.com\/site\/clearing-the-desktop-dept-in-venezuela-trump-exercized-presidents-power-to-make-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Clearing-The-Desktop Dept.: In Venezuela, Trump exercized president\u2019s power to make war"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8216;Editor, Press <span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Democrat:<\/span> Jon Duffy wrote that Donald Trump\u2019s arrest of dictator Nicol\u00e1s Maduro lacked \u201cjudicial process, international authorization, collective defense (and) congressional consent \u2026\u201d (\u201cWith attack, Trump cut last restraints on presidency,\u201d Jan. 11). This retired Navy officer is wrong on all accounts.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The judicial process was acted upon since a legitimate warrant for Maduro\u2019s arrest was issued long ago.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Secondly, international authorization was not required, nor sought, although numerous foreign governments, predominantly allies, said Maduro was not elected and would never be recognized as Venezuela\u2019s legitimate leader.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Thirdly, no collective defense has ever been sought by America as NATO, for example, did not defend the Venezuelan people from narco-terrorist thug leaders.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Lastly, congressional consent is not required in the Constitution. Congress has the right to declare war but not make war. The executive controls U.S. intelligence and military assets and has the power to make war.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Duffy needs to learn about our country that he once served and stop spreading misinformation in his writings. How can he legitimately write about leadership and democracy when he is illiterate in the basic facts?<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u2014 RK, Cloverdale&#8217;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">[These are all interpretations of judicial process, international authorization, collective defense and congressional consent, not justifications of intent]<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Editor, Press Democrat: Jon Duffy wrote that Donald Trump\u2019s arrest of dictator Nicol\u00e1s Maduro lacked \u201cjudicial process, international authorization, collective defense (and) congressional consent \u2026\u201d (\u201cWith attack, Trump cut last restraints on presidency,\u201d Jan. 11). This retired Navy officer is wrong on all accounts. The judicial process was acted upon since a legitimate warrant for&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"bookmark\" class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/brentandersonart.com\/site\/clearing-the-desktop-dept-in-venezuela-trump-exercized-presidents-power-to-make-war\/\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-571","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-blog","7":"entry","8":"clearfix","9":"entry-grid","10":"entry-columns-default","11":"entry-post-module-layout-standard","12":"no-post-thumbnail","13":"entry-post","15":"entry-post-grid"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brentandersonart.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brentandersonart.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brentandersonart.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brentandersonart.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brentandersonart.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brentandersonart.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":572,"href":"https:\/\/brentandersonart.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions\/572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brentandersonart.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brentandersonart.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brentandersonart.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}