“And so bypassing Congress on Venezuela is effectively the same same thing as sending a violent mob to attack the Capitol. It’s an attack on our institutions and takes away the freedom of the people to choose who’s really making the decisions that affect their futures.”

David Rothkopf

#Trump

3/3

“If Congress is supposed to control war and peace. If the Constitution is supposed to control who can and who cannot be a citizen and all of those things are essentially erased by this administration, that’s a coup.”

David Rothkopf
@thedsrnetwork.bsky.social
5 Jan 2026

#Trump

2/3

“If Trump’s allowed to use that argument - that he doesn’t have to follow the Constitution if he thinks it’s not gonna produce a good outcome - then Congress is completely cut out.”

David Rothkopf
@thedsrnetwork.bsky.social
5 Jan 2026

#trump

3/3

“Not only did they not consult with Congress based on a preposterous argument Rubio made that this was a law-enforcement operation so they didn’t have to, but Trump also said you can’t tell Congress anything cause they’ll leak it.”

David Rothkopf
@thedsrnetwork.bsky.social
5 Jan 2026

#Trump

2/3

“It makes the next couple of years considerably more dangerous than any period we have faced in the recent past.”

David Rothkopf
@thedsrnetwork.bsky.social
5 Jan 2026

#Trump

5/5

“So if we want to do something that this administration will let us get away with and a future one might push back, let’s move now.”

David Rothkopf
@thedsrnetwork.bsky.social
5 Jan 2026

#Trump

4/5

“Everybody in the world needs to think about what that clock looks like to bad actors around the world who say Trump‘s not gonna respond, so we now have three years and the clock is ticking.”

David Rothkopf
@thedsrnetwork.bsky.social
5 Jan 2026

#trump

3/5

“But they’re also gonna look at the clock and they’re gonna say are the next few years of Donald Trump in office our best shot at doing this?”

David Rothkopf
@thedsrnetwork.bsky.social
5 Jan 2026

#trump

2/5