All posts tagged "War"

Democratic political strategist James Carville warned about how Trump will try to hold on to power as it begins to dwindle in the coming elections.

"He's going really down in November, and he's going to get crazier," Carville said during a Thursday episode of Politicon. "You think he can't get any crazier. Let me assure you, he can get crazier."

Trump's demands for "allegiance and grandeur are signs of slipping relevance," Carville explained, and warned about how Trump will combat that decline....

WASHINGTON — Republicans are happy to criticize President Donald Trump’s war on Iran behind closed doors but “willing to give up congressional power” when given chances to actually rein him in, a prominent Democrat charged, shortly before the House of Representatives rejected a bipartisan attempt to assert its constitutional powers.

“There is an incredible sense in the Congress in the last year that so many Republicans have been willing to give up congressional power,” Rep. Becca Balint (D-VT) told Raw Story at the Capitol.

Republicans, Balint said, “all tell you behind closed doors a whole variety of things they don't like about what's happening. ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio held an unusual briefing on Tuesday that raised concerns among intel lawmakers over whether the U.S. may launch military attacks on Iran.

Rubio's private meeting was held virtually just hours before President Donald Trump's State of the Union address and included both Senate and House lawmakers, including high-ranking members of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees, Politico reported. The move has raised questions over the Trump administration's decision to take military action in the Middle East.

Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) expressed alarm over Rubio's comments. ...

President Donald Trump spent the Christmas holiday bombing Nigeria with overpriced and scarce long-range Tomahawk missiles — between social media attacks on Somali immigrants, rationalizing his attempted 2020 election steal and reposting calls to jail his political opponents.

But Zeteo reports Department of Defense officials were originally worried Trump’s attacks on Nigeria were going to be more of a protracted war, or worse.

“Two Department of Defense officials, one current and one former, tell Zeteo that at this point, they felt relieved that Trump’s Christmas bombing ended up being more targeted than it could have been, given how the president had previously dangled the possibility of sending US ground troops to Nigeria,” wrote Zeteo political Asawin Suebsaeng and politics Editor Andrew Perez....

Four men were killed Friday in a U.S. military strike reportedly targeting suspected drug runners in the Caribbean Sea — the latest in a series of attacks in the region.

It's now the fourth strike in a campaign that has been legally disputed, The New York Times reports.

President Donald Trump responded to the attack via his Truth Social platform, sharing an unclassified video of the attack:...

Donald Trump faced furious pushback from observers late on Saturday as the president announced a foreign military strike.

Trump announced the dropping of bombs on Iran on his social media site, Truth Social. He said the U.S. dropped a "full payload of BOMBS... on the primary site, Fordow."

One GOP lawmaker declared the action was unconstitutional....