Trump celebrates Maduro’s capture, but federal court reality looms, constitutional guardrails tighten, and Judge Hellerstein reminds presidents that indictments begin cases, not victories.
It certainly is. Mr. Cohen references Hernandez in this post.
"Yet he pardoned Honduras’s former president, Juan Orlando Hernández, after Hernández was convicted in Manhattan federal court of conspiring to import over 400 tons of cocaine into the United States, using automatic weapons, and working hand-in-glove with traffickers."
I read they were very skeptical about investing in something this costly financially and that they may never get a return on their investments. This was apiece quoting the big US oil companies. It would be perfect if they refused to go down that road. I think a lot of this big money guys are starting to see the failings of drumpf and don't want to end up like his casinos did in Jersey ...
Kind of difficult to get workers to build infrastructure while they're being shot at. I'll recon Exxon people are not too keen to expose themselves to sniper fire.
The angry fermented mango definitely will charge them a higher crypto premium and an additional requirement of handing over a number of 13 year old girls
I read earlier these pardons are costing around $6 million a piece due to so many hands in the cookie jar including lobbyists. The commander in thief gets a majority of the money in his pocket.
ALOHA. Adam from the COCONUT ONE MIDDLE FINGER WIRELESS.......Long war games been brewing by RUBIO......"CUBA".....""Being president of this country is entirely about character.”........We have serious problems to solve, and we need serious men to solve them. And whatever our particular problem is, ORANGE FACE. CRY BABY, PEDO PIG, TRUMP the KING OF BANKRUTER is not the least bit interested in solving it. .............The regime wants CUBA next.. Reason why attack Venezuela? STOP OIL GOING TO CUBA TO CHOKE them. RUBIO want to take CUBA. This is the first step in controlling the economy in CUBA....... TRUMP is only interested in three things and three's things only: Making you afraid, telling you who's to blame for it and MONEY. Rather than govern, ORANGE FACE, CRY BABY PEDO PIG TACO The KING OF BANKRUPTCY Trump is blaming his critics for the problems he has created. He is blaming immigrants, minorities, and Democratic voters and politicians alike. He is blaming you and me. ..
................HAUOLI MAKAHIKI HOU to you and yours.... everybody lives matter.. May the new days bring all of you to live in peace and prosperity. ......Live long, proud and loud......... ...........ALOHA.,
I am afraid. But I know who’s to blame. See when President Biden or President Obama were in office, I slept at night. I didn’t run scared of my own shadow. I didn’t fear my own government. Now none of those things are for sure. We have ICE agents acting like “brownshirts”. We have other citizens hollering that if we don’t like something…we should just leave. I’m not sure where I should deport to…I was born here, as were both my older siblings, my grandparents and so forth. I don’t speak any foreign language. And while Canada seems interesting, I’m not sure I fit in with their rules for becoming a citizen.
Greenland also seems interesting. But it’s COLD! That tends to make me rethink that possibility…my bones couldn’t take the COLD. I don’t mind that they are ruled by Denmark. Denmark seems like a totally reasonable country. The language barrier could be a problem.
As for Venezuela…it’s true I speak a teeny tiny bit of Spanish and a few words in Portuguese. I’d flounder horribly south of the border.
This country went off the rails. The hatred and intolerance for others is horrible.
Exactly who does this idiot thinks he is hold someone else accountable all whille he doing the same shit china ain’t gone play about their money, Donald is starting world war 3 without congressional approval just let that sink in
If I had a vote (WHICH I DON’T), I’d vote some kind of prize when Donny has well and truly croak and lies 6 feet under. Ding dong the warlord is dead! Now the world can once again begin to right herself without the likes of Donny to screw things over.
I'll be most glad when trump is gone too.... except if its any time soon - we're stuck with Vance - I think in many ways he's worse - his bald face lies about immigrants in Ohio eating cats & dogs?! Even the governor asked him to stop the lies - and of course Vance didn't
Angela exactly. He isn’t anyone special. It’s a bit like the Nuremberg Trials. There was no case law for the Nuremberg Trials. In this way, Donny is on thin ground.
As you pointed out in the article Michael, the indictment alleges that Maduro facilitated cocaine trafficking - cocaine. So is this an admission by the heritage foundation/trump/vance regime that the claim that fishing boats from Venezuela were trafficking fentanyl to the USA were false? Way past time for Congress to open impeachment investigations.
When the "Make America Healthy Again" report was issued, there were a lot of made-up studies. Karoline said they were "formatting issues." I have never understood how those fake reports were the results of formatting issues.
Imagine our surprise to learn that a malignant narcissist who'd told over 30,000 lies in his first term had also lied about 80+ murders he had ordered his military to execute in international waters, with no proof whatsoever of their 'guilt'.
Trump dementia is kicking in again 25th Amendment now before he destroys our democracy and the United States of America and puts us in World War 🇺🇸, he only wants the oil from Venezuela 🇻🇪, not going to happen dumpty, You are a pedophile and that's not going to go away.
Our democracy is already dead. If it can ever be restored, 25 amendment must be invoked now. Unfortunately, the damage is done and the world isn’t going to forget, and they have always blamed every horror our government has done on us, the citizens.
Once again, the unpresidential Trump’s whims to fill his own pockets and gain massive media coverage will cost the US taxpayers likely billions, while actual working citizens can’t pay their rent, afford medical treatment or eat proper food. Impeach, Arrest, convict, jail. Now. Finally, hold him accountable. Sick and tired of this.
Based on Michael’s description of Hellerstein it sounds like he has the gonads to handle this cluster fuck of a case. Let’s see how our Constitution holds.
Invading a country with violence and bombs, then capturing and removing their leader and removing him from the country is unbelievably against all international laws. Could our amoral and dangerous president really choose this over being held to account for his Jeffrey Epstein atrocities lasting many years? I am truly disgusted. These run counter to all American values.
But not to MAGA "values". They're literally orgasming over this while ignoring the pardons of three of the most notorious drug traffickers in recent memory. Including hernandez who it's estimated trafficked around 400 tons, (800,000 pounds) of cocaine in our country.
You also have to remember, maga have selective amnesia. Ask them about anything trump has done, and their answer anymore is, I don't recall that. With the added, prove it. maga can neither research, read or comprehend anything when it comes to trump. Or this regime for that matter.
You’re right his only love is money and how much he can steal. In 2018 during an audit at the pentagon showed $2 trillion missing which was never recovered and have no idea who stole it. 2025 $2.1 trillion is missing from the pentagon.
Good article. After the lay downs and capitulations of the Supreme Court, it's nice to know there are still honest jurists not on the payroll. Thank you Mr. Cohen.
Always the feeling of hope shrouds me when I read your posts. Always the knowledge that no matter how much trump regime breaks our laws, there is a judge, an atty, a constitutional reason for crushing his bullshit. We may not have the Supreme Court, the Congress, the white house, but we have the lower courts that, for the most part, know how valuable our rule of law remains in the sea of vermin infestation of pure evil.
Aloha from the freezing Hawaiian in snow..Menehune you are exactly right! The Orange Shitstain is going to line his pockets as per usual.. The Orange Criminal will keep criminaling always.. I didn’t vote for the Orange Shitstain.. EVER..
Have you ever noticed how his makeup on the right side of his face (right above his labia) has worn off. It looks like it wares off because of his phone. His handlers should alert the idiot. His sloppy makeup isn’t a good look. He’s making our country look bad 🤣
Thank you, Michael, for reminding us that accusations, violence, and drama are not evidence and convictions. Thank you for sharing your first hand information on this judge. I dont see how any of these charges stand up to the illegality of assaulting a sovereign nation and kidnapping its ruler. How did these charges even get a true bill from a grand jury.
Micheal,not one person has the guts to ask the real question. How much was trump paid for that Honduras pardon?
One person did have the guts to ask: you, Christina! Thank you!
Get your own Substack!! This isn’t even relevant here!!
It certainly is. Mr. Cohen references Hernandez in this post.
"Yet he pardoned Honduras’s former president, Juan Orlando Hernández, after Hernández was convicted in Manhattan federal court of conspiring to import over 400 tons of cocaine into the United States, using automatic weapons, and working hand-in-glove with traffickers."
Looks pretty relevant to me.
I wasn’t talking to you.
I was just thinking how big a bribe from Maduro would it take for Trump to realest him.
he will be bribed
he will release Maduro
And he'll go ballistic when the shit hits the fan
Remember:
EPSTEIN
EPSTEIN
EPSTEIN
it ain;t going away Donny Darko
Let's not forget that BIG OIL is behind this.
300+billion barrels of the stuff in the Venezuelan soil.
I'm not sure that even our greedy fossil fuel companies are stupid enough to touch all this with a 10 foot pole.
I read they were very skeptical about investing in something this costly financially and that they may never get a return on their investments. This was apiece quoting the big US oil companies. It would be perfect if they refused to go down that road. I think a lot of this big money guys are starting to see the failings of drumpf and don't want to end up like his casinos did in Jersey ...
Kind of difficult to get workers to build infrastructure while they're being shot at. I'll recon Exxon people are not too keen to expose themselves to sniper fire.
Yeah: nasty, heavy crude...difficult &b expensive to refine, sulfur-laden oil.
It's his newest grift. Capture/release/pardon all the major drug kingpins. Get more richer. Huzzah!
The angry fermented mango definitely will charge them a higher crypto premium and an additional requirement of handing over a number of 13 year old girls
Wasn't there just an article this past week discussing the going price for pardons? It isn't a secret really.
I read earlier these pardons are costing around $6 million a piece due to so many hands in the cookie jar including lobbyists. The commander in thief gets a majority of the money in his pocket.
"commander in thief". 😄
I thought I read somewhere that it was a cool million
I don't know all I know is Trump has a cold heart and only thinks about himself, money and power.
Good question. It did seem to come out of nowhere, didn't it?
Brilliant question. Maybe DJTJ was give a lot of free coke too.
ALOHA. Adam from the COCONUT ONE MIDDLE FINGER WIRELESS.......Long war games been brewing by RUBIO......"CUBA".....""Being president of this country is entirely about character.”........We have serious problems to solve, and we need serious men to solve them. And whatever our particular problem is, ORANGE FACE. CRY BABY, PEDO PIG, TRUMP the KING OF BANKRUTER is not the least bit interested in solving it. .............The regime wants CUBA next.. Reason why attack Venezuela? STOP OIL GOING TO CUBA TO CHOKE them. RUBIO want to take CUBA. This is the first step in controlling the economy in CUBA....... TRUMP is only interested in three things and three's things only: Making you afraid, telling you who's to blame for it and MONEY. Rather than govern, ORANGE FACE, CRY BABY PEDO PIG TACO The KING OF BANKRUPTCY Trump is blaming his critics for the problems he has created. He is blaming immigrants, minorities, and Democratic voters and politicians alike. He is blaming you and me. ..
................HAUOLI MAKAHIKI HOU to you and yours.... everybody lives matter.. May the new days bring all of you to live in peace and prosperity. ......Live long, proud and loud......... ...........ALOHA.,
Jambo Menehune (which is to say “hello” or “hi”.
I am afraid. But I know who’s to blame. See when President Biden or President Obama were in office, I slept at night. I didn’t run scared of my own shadow. I didn’t fear my own government. Now none of those things are for sure. We have ICE agents acting like “brownshirts”. We have other citizens hollering that if we don’t like something…we should just leave. I’m not sure where I should deport to…I was born here, as were both my older siblings, my grandparents and so forth. I don’t speak any foreign language. And while Canada seems interesting, I’m not sure I fit in with their rules for becoming a citizen.
Greenland also seems interesting. But it’s COLD! That tends to make me rethink that possibility…my bones couldn’t take the COLD. I don’t mind that they are ruled by Denmark. Denmark seems like a totally reasonable country. The language barrier could be a problem.
As for Venezuela…it’s true I speak a teeny tiny bit of Spanish and a few words in Portuguese. I’d flounder horribly south of the border.
This country went off the rails. The hatred and intolerance for others is horrible.
The Orange Gargoyle strikes again...we shall see how far he gets....
Great words, even if you are stealing a lot of them from a well known movie...
Exactly who does this idiot thinks he is hold someone else accountable all whille he doing the same shit china ain’t gone play about their money, Donald is starting world war 3 without congressional approval just let that sink in
Amen, he's still chasing the NOBEL PEACE PRIZE😂😁😂
34 count felon, sexual assault, pedophiles are not worthy of a Nobel!!
So write or call!
https://www.nobelprize.org/contact
They need to hear from we the people n quit!
trump isn’t fit for a booby prize! A free trip to the grey bar hotel! Food, clothing furnished!
If I had a vote (WHICH I DON’T), I’d vote some kind of prize when Donny has well and truly croak and lies 6 feet under. Ding dong the warlord is dead! Now the world can once again begin to right herself without the likes of Donny to screw things over.
Yes the day of his demise should be a national holiday complete with fireworks & happy dances…..
I'll be most glad when trump is gone too.... except if its any time soon - we're stuck with Vance - I think in many ways he's worse - his bald face lies about immigrants in Ohio eating cats & dogs?! Even the governor asked him to stop the lies - and of course Vance didn't
He did liken what he did to WWII. And we all know Hitler is his hero.
Angela exactly. He isn’t anyone special. It’s a bit like the Nuremberg Trials. There was no case law for the Nuremberg Trials. In this way, Donny is on thin ground.
As you pointed out in the article Michael, the indictment alleges that Maduro facilitated cocaine trafficking - cocaine. So is this an admission by the heritage foundation/trump/vance regime that the claim that fishing boats from Venezuela were trafficking fentanyl to the USA were false? Way past time for Congress to open impeachment investigations.
Brilliant point! Of course, in the words of Karoline Leavitt, "it was a formatting issue."
That's Karoline Lie-Vitt. Why can't people get her name right?
Thanks—I keep getting that wrong! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
🐂 💩 Barbie.
KKKarolyin' Lie-vitt
I don't even know what that means.....ugh.
When the "Make America Healthy Again" report was issued, there were a lot of made-up studies. Karoline said they were "formatting issues." I have never understood how those fake reports were the results of formatting issues.
Imagine our surprise to learn that a malignant narcissist who'd told over 30,000 lies in his first term had also lied about 80+ murders he had ordered his military to execute in international waters, with no proof whatsoever of their 'guilt'.
Who'd uh thunk it?
Trump dementia is kicking in again 25th Amendment now before he destroys our democracy and the United States of America and puts us in World War 🇺🇸, he only wants the oil from Venezuela 🇻🇪, not going to happen dumpty, You are a pedophile and that's not going to go away.
Notice how we’ve heard nothing about the additional Epstein files lately?
Our democracy is already dead. If it can ever be restored, 25 amendment must be invoked now. Unfortunately, the damage is done and the world isn’t going to forget, and they have always blamed every horror our government has done on us, the citizens.
"Project 2025," the policy blueprint
from The Heritage Foundation, and
the 2025 National Security
Strategy (NSS) under the second
Trump administration, both
released in December 2025
advocate for a major foreign policy
shift that elevates U.S. dominance
in the Western Hemisphere as the
top strategic priority.
So embarrassed for rubio on This Week this morning! He embarrasses me.
Rubio is embarrassing even when he doesn’t speak.
Once again, the unpresidential Trump’s whims to fill his own pockets and gain massive media coverage will cost the US taxpayers likely billions, while actual working citizens can’t pay their rent, afford medical treatment or eat proper food. Impeach, Arrest, convict, jail. Now. Finally, hold him accountable. Sick and tired of this.
Trump invoked the "no foreign entanglements" doctrine in his second inaguration speech. What we got was the DonRoe doctrine instread.
If ya can't trust a slimy politician, who can ya trust?
That poor judge is about to be ridiculed and insulted by the alleged president of this country. Guaranteed. And it will again be so shameful to see.
Based on Michael’s description of Hellerstein it sounds like he has the gonads to handle this cluster fuck of a case. Let’s see how our Constitution holds.
Invading a country with violence and bombs, then capturing and removing their leader and removing him from the country is unbelievably against all international laws. Could our amoral and dangerous president really choose this over being held to account for his Jeffrey Epstein atrocities lasting many years? I am truly disgusted. These run counter to all American values.
But not to MAGA "values". They're literally orgasming over this while ignoring the pardons of three of the most notorious drug traffickers in recent memory. Including hernandez who it's estimated trafficked around 400 tons, (800,000 pounds) of cocaine in our country.
You also have to remember, maga have selective amnesia. Ask them about anything trump has done, and their answer anymore is, I don't recall that. With the added, prove it. maga can neither research, read or comprehend anything when it comes to trump. Or this regime for that matter.
Of course he can because to Trump only one thing matters: protecting and enriching himself. All the rest is just noise to him.
You’re right his only love is money and how much he can steal. In 2018 during an audit at the pentagon showed $2 trillion missing which was never recovered and have no idea who stole it. 2025 $2.1 trillion is missing from the pentagon.
I appreciate your assessment of Judge Hellerstein, and it gave me a bit of hope. Thanks.
Thankyou Judge Hellerstein.
Good article. After the lay downs and capitulations of the Supreme Court, it's nice to know there are still honest jurists not on the payroll. Thank you Mr. Cohen.
Always the feeling of hope shrouds me when I read your posts. Always the knowledge that no matter how much trump regime breaks our laws, there is a judge, an atty, a constitutional reason for crushing his bullshit. We may not have the Supreme Court, the Congress, the white house, but we have the lower courts that, for the most part, know how valuable our rule of law remains in the sea of vermin infestation of pure evil.
Aloha from the freezing Hawaiian in snow..Menehune you are exactly right! The Orange Shitstain is going to line his pockets as per usual.. The Orange Criminal will keep criminaling always.. I didn’t vote for the Orange Shitstain.. EVER..
True...this trial will take decades. He could die in prison before the case comes before a jury.
Prison works for me. If he doesn’t die naturally beforehand, he’s sure to die in there and he will suffer!!! 😱😱😱
Maybe Maduro is in Epstein’s old cell. Many have complained about MDC. It’s a rat infested dump.
Death works.. sooner than later please
tramp looks like walking death, for awhile now!😉
Have you ever noticed how his makeup on the right side of his face (right above his labia) has worn off. It looks like it wares off because of his phone. His handlers should alert the idiot. His sloppy makeup isn’t a good look. He’s making our country look bad 🤣
As a Make Up Artist I fully approve of your message 😂🤣😂
Look at his makeup up and the female genitalia that he has around his neck. You’ll see see what I’m talking about. 🤣
Kiwi, what if Maduro asks for a speedy trial? That would be fucking hilarious.
He won’t get one. Period.
I would ask if I were Maduro. Everyone is entitled to a speedy trial in the US 😂 Oh, I’d ask for bail too. NYC is a great party town.
LOL
All the same
Fine by me..
Thank you, Michael, for reminding us that accusations, violence, and drama are not evidence and convictions. Thank you for sharing your first hand information on this judge. I dont see how any of these charges stand up to the illegality of assaulting a sovereign nation and kidnapping its ruler. How did these charges even get a true bill from a grand jury.