Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., condemns President Donald Trump’s Venezuela military action, despite his history of softer approaches to socialist dictators.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., railed against President Donald Trump’s weekend strikes in Venezuela, but his criticism comes after a history of taking a softer approach to socialist dictators like former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
Sanders, like several of his colleagues in the Senate Democratic caucus, argued that Trump’s decision to strike Venezuela’s capital Caracas without congressional approval broke the law and was another instance of the administration leapfrogging Congress’ war powers.
“Donald Trump has, once again, shown his contempt for the Constitution and the rule of law”, Sanders said in a statement. “The President of the United States does NOT have the right to unilaterally take this country to war, even against a corrupt and brutal dictator like Maduro.”
But the lawmaker’s decision to call Maduro a dictator is a shift.
