A legal expert delivered a dark warning Thursday about the Trump administration's confidential notice to Congress about “unlawful combatants," warning, "they're going to kill a lot of people" — and smear anyone seeking proof.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnickposted on X in response to The New York Times report indicating that President Donald Trump is apparently declaring that the U.S. is at war with drug cartels.
"They're going to kill a lot of people and claim that everyone of them was a drug trafficker, and call you a terrorist-lover if you ask for any evidence," Reichlin-Melnick wrote.
The notice was obtained by The Times and sent to multiple congressional committees and includes more details about the three strikes the U.S. military made on boats in the Caribbean Sea that left 17 people aboard dead and how these acts "should be seen as lawful rather than murder."
"Mr. Trump’s move to formally deem his campaign against drug cartels as an active armed conflict means he is cementing his claim to extraordinary wartime powers, legal specialists said," according to The Times.