Donald Trump's administration just stepped in it with its latest military strike, according to a Yale professor.
Margaret M. Donovan, Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School, appeared on MSNBC on Saturday to discuss Trump's latest attack on a foreign boat, purportedly carrying fentanyl. Donovan noted that the Trump admin returned the two survivors of the strike to their home countries, which she said was likely to avoid going before a judge on the topic of war powers.
"The Trump administration stumbled into the last place they want to be," she said, "which is before an Article III judge."
By sending "these people back to their apparent countries," Donovan added, the Trump admin was implying they aren't Venezuelan and they are "apparently not that dangerous."
The host cut in to say it was "an admission that either they haven't thought it through... or these people aren't who they claimed them to be."
Donovan agreed, saying it's possible that the federal government has been "killing not who they've been telling us." She went on to note a "blaring alarm bell" and "a bright red flag" as a top military official reportedly resigned amid tension over the military strikes.
"That is very unusual," the professor added. "That's a sign. That's a clue."
Of the Trump admin's actions today, Donovan said, "None of that holds up."
"Their actions today undermined all of their legal justifications," she said this weekend.
