Rand Paul: Trump Blowing Up Ships That Might Have Drugs Is 'Not Constitutional'

Rand Paul: Trump Blowing Up Ships That Might Have Drugs Is ‘Not Constitutional’


Tuesday on FNC’s “The Will Cain Show,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said it was not constitutional for the Trump administration to deploy a military strike on a Venezuelan boat of alleged drug traffickers without any due process.

Paul said, “If this is a new policy, realize that off of Miami, a dozen ships will be interdicted today. They will be stopped, boarded, and searched. Some of them will have drugs, some of them won’t. The reason we board them before we blow the crap out of them is some of them don’t have drugs. Think about it this way. This is how people don’t quite get this. Let’s say there’s a house in your neighborhood and they’re all selling fentanyl, and thousands of people are dying, and

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