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President Donald Trump isn't hiding his true motivations behind his controversial military intervention in Venezuela, despite a mountain of effort by his administration to claim it was merely a limited operation, according to a new analysis in The Atlantic.

Trump seized control of Venezuela, and his own vice president is now cheerleading the intervention despite penning an op-ed in 2023 titled "Trump's Best Foreign Policy? Not Starting Any Wars." Analyst Jonathan Chait on Monday called out the administration for hailing the Venezuelan takeover as "America First" policy.

A prominent legal expert skewered President Donald Trump's move to capture Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro over the weekend, a move that he described as an "inversion of our constitutional order." Even so, he warned there is little chance Trump or anyone involved in the operation will be held accountable.

Over the weekend, U.S. forces arrested Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, at the presidential palace and brought them to the U.S. to be prosecuted for narco-terrorism and weapons crimes. Maduro and Flores pleaded "not guilty" to the charges on Monday. They are being represented by Barry Pollack, a partner at the boutique law firm Harris St. Laurent & Weschler LLP in New York, who previously represented Julian Assange.

Political analysts and observers were left aghast after one of President Donald Trump's top advisors had a "bellicose" interview on CNN.

Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff for policy, discussed the administration's recent actions to arrest Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro and other foreign policy aims on CNN's "The Lead" with Jake Tapper on Monday. During the interview, Miller said the U.S. would continue its pursuit of occupying Greenland, a sovereign territory of the Kingdom of Denmark. He also would not rule out sending troops to other countries in South and Central America.

A prominent conservative analyst ripped President Donald Trump's administration on Monday for its "dorkiest" attempt to bully one of its political foes.

On Monday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that the Department of Defense was reducing Sen. Mark Kelly's (D-AZ) retirement pay as punishment for participating in a video with five other Democrats in which they told military personnel to be suspicious of orders from the Trump administration. Trump described Kelly's comments as "seditious" in a Truth Social post.

President Donald Trump made a stunning claim Monday evening about who's in charge in Venezuela after he ordered Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro to be captured in a pre‑dawn U.S. special operations raid on Caracas.

Maduro was taken into custody on Saturday and flown to New York to face narco‑terrorism and related drug charges. The mission used elite troops that leveled Venezuela’s air defenses and blacked out parts of the capital. Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were seized at a military complex after a brief firefight.

President Donald Trump came under fire on Monday from both parties' leadership in the Senate Judiciary Committee over his refusal to include them in the briefing about the operation to capture Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro.

In recent months, Democrats have complained that the administration is sidelining their elected officials from participating in Venezuela briefings while keeping Republicans in the loop. This time, however, Trump is simply not including the Judiciary Committee at all, prompting Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and ranking member Dick Durbin (D-IL) to release an outraged statement.

Republicans put one of President Donald Trump's most significant goals on ice on Monday by refusing to change the John F. Kennedy Center's name officially.

Trump has been trying for months to rebrand the Kennedy Center as the "Trump-Kennedy Center," a move that has caused a swarm of musicians to boycott the acclaimed concert hall. He has affixed his name to the building's exterior, although officially changing the name requires an act of Congress because the center was created by federal law.

CNN host Jake Tapper and Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff for policy, got into a heated clash on Monday afternoon over the Trump administration's goals for Venezuela after it arrested the country's leader over the weekend.

Early on Saturday morning, U.S. military troops arrested Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, and brought them to the United States to stand trial on narco-terrorism and weapons charges. Maduro and his wife pleaded not guilty to the charges in court on Monday.

Classified CIA intel reveals President Donald Trump is backing Nicolás Maduro's Vice President Delcy Rodríguez to lead Venezuela, snubbing Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado, according to a new report.

The spy agency assessed that Rodríguez, along with hardline Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello and Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino, could best maintain stability if the strongman lost power, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday. Trump got the briefing and made his controversial call.

President Donald Trump raged against a popular medication and certain vaccines on Monday in a strange Truth Social post.

"Pregnant Women, DON’T USE TYLENOL UNLESS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY, DON’T GIVE TYLENOL TO YOUR YOUNG CHILD FOR VIRTUALLY ANY REASON," the post began.

Political analysts and observers piled on as a Senate Republican offered "empty words" over President Donald Trump's health secretary after he made a move that the lawmaker warned would cause "unnecessary fear" among doctors.

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), a physician by trade, issued a stark statement after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s agency issued a revised pediatric vaccine schedule on Monday. The new schedule reduces the number of recommended vaccines for children from 17 to 11 and restricts them to rotavirus, hepatitis A and B, meningitis, and seasonal flu.