The dweeby lawyer, Ryan Goodman, went to Yale, obviously
Ryan Goodman, a Yale Law grad who served as “special counsel to the general counsel of the Department of Defense” under President Barack H. Obama, has a message for Donald Trump: Stop being mean to the narco-terrorist cartels who kill Americans by manufactured poison.
Goodman whined like a bitch this week after Trump ordered a military strike on a drug-smuggling speedboat operated by Tren de Aragua, the Venezuela-based criminal gang and designated terrorist organization. Eleven cartel members died in the successful strike. Most normal Americans cheered their demise, but not Goodman. The dweeby lawyer complained that Trump had violated the gang’s unalienable right to commit crimes in the United States. He even suggested the president was guilty of a war crime.
“I worked at DoD,” Goodman seethed passionately in defense of the innocent narco-terrorists. “I literally cannot imagine lawyers coming up with a legal basis for lethal strike of suspected Venezuelan drug boat. Hard to see how this would not be ‘murder’ or war crime under international law that DoD considers applicable.”
Counterpoint: No one cares.
The precision strike, carried out by a U.S. drone or special operations helicopter, marked a dramatic escalation in the Trump administration’s campaign against narco-traffickers as well as the regime of Nicolás Maduro. U.S. defense secretary Pete Hegseth described the communist-adjacent Venezuelan strongman as the “kingpin of a drug narco-state.” It would seem that Goodman and his fellow libs will have plenty to whine about in the coming days.
“There’s more where that came from,” Trump said in the wake of the strike, an awe-inspiring video of which can be viewed below.
Goodman, who has held an array of undistinguished professorships at Harvard and NYU, was apparently unable to comprehend Trump’s actions, aghast that a president would use military force to kill a bunch of drug-smuggling terrorists.
That’s understandable, given that during Goodman’s time in the notoriously feckless Obama administration, the preferred method of dealing with international criminals was a sternly worded memo, an admonishing amicus brief, or—if things really got out of hand—a panel discussion at the Council on Foreign Relations (Goodman is a member). The cartels, meanwhile, were running drug pipelines, trafficking humans, murdering innocents, destabilizing democracies, and helping Maduro keep his socialist regime afloat.
Trump, who does not share Obama’s disdain for the American people, has chosen an alternative path. He doesn’t need a memo to send the message that terrorists who traffic drugs that kill Americans will suffer swift and lethal consequences. Doing what comes naturally, Goodman and his Democratic comrades are lashing out, bemoaning the lack of equitable justice for criminals.
It’s hardly the first time Goodman has complained about Trump taking decisive action to deter crime. The esteemed Yale graduate slammed the “dangerous decision” to send armed National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., and even cited Rand Paul, the widely discredited U.S. senator, in defense of his opposition to lower crime rates.
Goodman opposed Trump’s military strike on Iranian nuclear facilities, and predicted a devastating war would result. He congratulated himself and other experts for predicting that the strike would fail, citing a poorly sourced CNN report that turned out to be false. “So many experts warned of this,” he boasted.
Like most Democrats who didn’t think the American people were smart enough to realize Joe Biden’s brain had stopped working, Goodman denounced Special Counsel Robert Hur’s assessment that Biden “willfully retained and disclosed classified materials” but was unlikely to be convicted because a jury would take pity on the “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
America really is a fantastic country, even if Goodman’s former boss disagrees. When a bold president such as Donald Trump decides to crack down on crime, his idiotic opponents are free to voice their unpopular opinions and stick up for the criminals.
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