Luk Van Eylen
lukfrombelgium.bsky.social
Luk Van Eylen
@lukfrombelgium.bsky.social
Vlaming, Belg, Europeaan. Interesse in politiek. Ik hou van de VS, maar ik ben geen fan van veroordeelde, populistische en narcistische brulboeien.
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Trump said today he'll be pardoning former Honduran President Juan Hernandez, who was convicted of drug trafficking and weapons charges in 2024 and sentenced to 45 years in prison.

Waging a drug war on Venezuela while pardoning a narco-terrorist takes hypocrisy to a level once thought impossible.
November 29, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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We went from a country that defended others from being invaded for their natural resources, to a country that is now threatening to invade others for their natural resources.

Systems of governance are only as good as the people you elect to uphold them.
November 30, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
November 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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“Ah, just one more thing, sir. You’re blowing up those boats, saying they’re filled with drugs headed for the US. But then you go and pardon the guy who brought in 400 tons of cocaine. That’s billions of doses. Help me understand that.”
November 30, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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Trump dag 314: Trump laat visa Afghanen vernietigen, zegt dat luchtruim Venezuela gesloten is, lanceert Hall of Shame media, ministerie twittert over ‘gevecht voor westerse beschaving’, plan Oekraïne ‘draait om geld voor Trump’, goedkeuring Trump naar 36%: reportersonline.nl/trump-dag-31...
Trump dag 314: Trump laat visa voor Afghanen vernietigen, zegt dat luchtruim Venezuela gesloten is, lanceert Hall of Shame website over media, ministerie van Arbeid twittert over 'gevecht voor westers...
Nieuwe besluiten van Trump en consorten, en nieuwe fallout. Een overzicht van dag 314. – De Trump-regering draagt diplomaten op […]
reportersonline.nl
November 30, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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Nothing proves the Trump administration is made of mean whims based on lies better than a president who is murdering people in boats "because I am so strongly against drug trafficking" pardoning someone who trafficked more drugs than a hundred fishing boats could carry.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/28/p...
Trump says he will pardon former Honduran president serving sentence in drug-trafficking case | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump said Friday he intends to grant a “full and complete pardon” to former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, a move that would erase a major US drug-trafficking conviction ...
www.cnn.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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"We blow up ‘alleged’ drug boats in the Caribbean but pardon actually convicted drug traffickers in the U.S. Someone help me make sense of this.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
Trump Announces Pardon for Honduran Ex-President Convicted in Drug Case
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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🇺🇸🇺🇦 Rubio, Witkoff and Kushner to meet Ukrainian team on Sunday, - Reuters
November 29, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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How low we have sunk as a country. The US Department of Defense is now run by a rabid war criminal.

Ordering the execution of helpless survivors of an attack is ALWAYS a war crime, whether they civilian or military.

Pure, mindless, barbarism.
www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-pet...
Pentagon Pete in Legal Peril Over ‘Kill Them All’ Orders
A follow-up missile allegedly killed survivors of a U.S. strike on a drug boat.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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For those who don’t know, Jack served in the Bush administration but resigned in protest of the extra constitutional claims made by the administration. He’s no left wing radical, but he care about the Constitution.

He has forgotten more about executive power than I could ever hope to learn.
Harvard Law School’s Jack Goldsmith:

“In short, if the Post’s facts are correct, it appears that Special Operations Forces committed murder when the ‘two men were blown apart in the water, as the Post put it.’”

open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
November 29, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Not only did Trump grant the National Guard shooter asylum to live in the U.S. in April, 2025, but the shooter worked with the CIA during Trump's first term -- and was apparently vetted by Trump's CIA.

www.cbsnews.com/news/suspect...
D.C. National Guard shooting suspect identified as Afghan national who had worked with CIA. Here's what we know.
A 29-year-old Afghan national named Rahmanullah Lakanwal has been identified as the suspected shooter in the ambush that killed one National Guard member and wounded another in D.C., officials say.
www.cbsnews.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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I can't wait until this chest-beating imbecile is brought up on murder charges.
November 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker.
Just to level set
November 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Former nursing home executive and convicted fraudster Joseph Schwartz was pardoned by Trump earlier this month.

Schwartz secured the pardon after paying two other convicted fraudsters nearly $1M to lobby Trump on his behalf.

Everything is for sale. youtube.com/watch?v=NflcWXdV-B0&feature=youtu.be
Trump’s Pay-to-Pardon Scheme
Robert Reich
youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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calmly explaining why we shouldn't bomb random venezuelan boats to people who argued we should torture random iraqis and then won an election by saying they were against a war they advocated for
November 29, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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This would be a war crime even if there were an actual war and these people were actual combatants, which there isn't and they weren't.

It's unquestionably an unlawful homicide under any form of law you wish to apply: military or civilian, domestic or international, federal or state. ...
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing

"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."

Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:12 PM
“Mocht eender welke ambtenaar doen wat Witkoff deed, zou die prompt wegens hoogverraad gearresteerd worden, voor de rechter gesleurd en tot een zware celstraf veroordeeld. Witkoff heeft een rivaal geholpen." - Roger Housen, defensiespecialist in HLN, over telefoontje met Poetins adviseur Oesjakov.
November 28, 2025 at 5:54 PM
"If any official were to do what Witkoff did, they would immediately be arrested for high treason, brought before a judge, and sentenced to a long prison term" - Roger Housen, Belgian defense expert on the Trump envoy, advising Putin's foreign policy aide on how to pitch a UKR peace plan to Trump.
November 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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BREAKING: The suspect who is alleged to have shot two National Guardsmen was from Afghanistan and WAS GRANTED ASYLUM BY THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IN APRIL, 2025!

www.cnn.com/us/live-news...
Live updates: Washington DC shooting leaves two National Guardsmen shot | CNN
Two members of the West Virginia National Guardsmen were shot in Washington, DC, today, according to the state’s governor. Follow for live updates.
www.cnn.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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“A 19-year-old college student who was on her way to surprise her family for Thanksgiving break was detained at a Boston airport and later deported despite a federal judge's order blocking her removal, according to her attorney.”
19-year-old college student deported despite judge's order blocking her removal: Lawyer
A 19-year-old college student who was on her way to surprise her family for Thanksgiving break was detained at a Boston airport and later deported.
abcnews.go.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Today’s dismissal of cases against Comey and James is a triumph of the rule of law.

Career prosecutors did their ethical duty, refused to bring vindictive and meritless cases, and paid the price with their jobs.
November 24, 2025 at 10:10 PM
So much winning...
🔥 "A federal judge tossed out separate criminal charges against the former FBI director James B. Comey and Attorney General Letitia James of New York, saying the prosecutor’s appointment was invalid—a major blow to the president’s effort to make the criminal justice system do as he pleases." - NYT
November 24, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Sen. Mark Kelly has released a statement.

"If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won't work. I've given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies..."
November 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Trump feuding with Marjorie Taylor Greene but being in love with Zohran Mamdani was not on my November 2025 bingo card
November 21, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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MAGA: "Ha ha ha ha! New York City just elected a socialist. We are going to turn Zohran Mamdani into the face of the Democratic Party, a bogeyman, and a weight around the necks of all Democrats! Stupid play, suckers!"

TRUMP: "Mamdani is wonderful. He's going to make a great mayor."

MAGA: "What???"
November 21, 2025 at 10:08 PM