Professor Valdeck's analysis on "arrest"-200. Five Questions About the Maduro Arrest Operation

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1. Pam Bondi has charged Nicols Maduro with "possession of machine guns" under the National Firearms Act of 1934, a U.S. g

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BREAKING: Pam Bondi has charged Nicolás Maduro with “possession of machine guns” under the National Firearms Act of 1934, a U.S. gun law.

Think about how absurd that is.

By that logic, China or Russia can kidnap Trump and sentence him to death for “possessing” 5,200 nuclear warheads under their domestic laws.

American presidents are now supposedly immune from prosecution for their official acts, yet foreign presidents can be arrested for allegedly violating U.S. statutes that do not apply to foreign citizens, in foreign countries.

You can hate Maduro and still recognize that this precedent is reckless, hypocritical, and dangerous, because once domestic law becomes a weapon against foreign leaders, no country gets to complain when it’s done to us next.