Trump Offshoring the Money from the Sale of the Oil Cargo on Board the Venezuelan Oil Tankers Seized, at His Command, by the US Navy

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Trump Offshoring the Money from the Sale of the Oil Cargo on Board the Venezuelan Oil Tankers Seized, at His Command, by the US Navy

"Trump Is Reportedly Funneling Money From Venezuelan Oil Sales To a Bank Account in Qatar https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-reportedly-funneling-money-venezuelan-041430420.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw&tsrc=twtr via u/YahooNews"

Trump is using the US federal government and his official office of service in it as US president and commander in chief of the US armed forces and using the US military itself, unconstitutionally, without the constitutionally required prior knowledge, consent and vote of approval of fully both houses of the US Congress (to which the US Constitution assigns the sole authority to authorize and declare war, including acts of war), on his own initiative in unconstitutionally organizing and ordering a US military operation and deadly attack on Venezuela and seizing its leader and declaring his seizure and ownership of its national oil resources as well as reportedly naming himself the interim new head of state of Venezuela, in brazen violation, disregard and defiance, and so far, with impunity, of the US Constitution and US Uniform Code of Military Justice (to which both Trump as commander in chief of the US armed forces and Hegseth as secretary of the US Department of Defense, newly alternatively named the US Department of War, in thereby being members of the US armed forces, are also subject and accountable), and federal and international law and law-enforcement. He is now furthermore undertaking unconstitutionally to sequester this seized foreign economic resource from the constitutional control and disposition of the US Congress, in which the US Constitution assigns all fiscal, revenue, budgetary, monetary, commerce and economic (treasury) authority to the US Congress, although the executive branch department and agency administrators of these functions are appointed by the US president, but with the advice and consent vote of approval of the US Senate, and he is funneling its income offshore so as to bypass US constitutionally required control of it by the US Congress and implicitly create with it an extra-constitutional, independent treasury income, budgetary and funding resource and asset for the Trump US presidency that is wholly and discretionarily controlled by Trump as the US president. So far, the Venezuela oil-sourced money coming to the Trump US presidency has been coming from the Trump administration's piracy sale of the oil cargo on board the at-sea Venezuelan oil tankers piracy-seized at the command of the Trump administration by the US Navy or Coast Guard, seizures and sales not authorized by the US Congress, https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-hands-first-sale-swiped-150105918.html .

Legal References

Constitution of the United States, https://www.senate.gov/about/origins-foundations/senate-and-constitution/constitution.htm

Preamble   Article I   Article II   Article III   Article IV   Article V   Article VI   
Article VII AMENDMENTS

Article I

Section 1   Section 2   Section 3   Section 4   Section 5   Section 6        Section 7 Section 8   Section 9   Section 10 

Section 1 (Characterization, powers and governance jurisdiction of the US Congress stated in the US Constitution)

All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representative.

Section 7

All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.

Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States: If he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his Objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the Objections at large on their Journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If after such Reconsideration two thirds of that House shall agree to pass the Bill, it shall be sent, together with the Objections, to the other House, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two thirds of that House, it shall become a Law. But in all such Cases the Votes of both Houses shall be determined by Yeas and Nays, and the Names of the Persons voting for and against the Bill shall be entered on the Journal of each House respectively. If any Bill shall not be returned by the President within ten Days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the Same shall be a Law, in like Manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress by their Adjournment prevent its Return, in which Case it shall not be a Law.

Every Order, Resolution, or Vote to which the Concurrence of the Senate and House of Representatives may be necessary (except on a question of Adjournment) shall be presented to the President of the United States; and before the Same shall take Effect, shall be approved by him, or being disapproved by him, shall be repassed by two thirds of the Senate and House of Representatives, according to the Rules and Limitations prescribed in the Case of a Bill.

Section 8

The Congress shall have Power

To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

To borrow Money on the credit of the United States;

To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;

To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;

To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;

To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;

To establish Post Offices and post Roads;

To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;

To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;

[The US Constitutional Authorities of the US Congress Over the US Armed Forces and Sole Power to Authorize Acts of War and Declare War, Antecedent and In Addition to Its Subsequent Federal Statutory Law Authorities Over New Branches of the Armed Forces]

*****To "define and punish" Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations;

*****To "declare War," grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and "make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;"

*****To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;

*****To provide and maintain a Navy;

*****To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces; (So, the US Congress and members of the US Congress do have the right and authority to speak out and advise members of the US Armed Forces to refuse to obey and carry out an illegal order, also consistent with US Uniform Code of Military Justice, issued by any superior in the armed forces' chain of command, including by the secretary of the Department of Defense/War and/or the US president or vice president, and the US president is subordinate and subject to its rules of governance of the armed forces.)

*****To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;

*****To provide for organizing, arming, and "disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States," reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress; (So, again, the US president, even as the US Constitutional commander in chief of the US Armed Forces is, nevertheless, US Constitutionally subordinate and subject to the US Constitutional authority of the US Congress as regards its oversight, regulation, use and legal governance of the US Armed Forces.)

To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;—And

"To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof." (Thus, as the US Constitution explicitly confers all legislative and law-making authority for the USA and its government and governance exclusively on the US Congress, the US president cannot have and has no law-making authority and his or her executive orders (which are policy directives or commands to executive branch personnel for their implementation of them as operational practices or action/s) and military orders (likewise) that pose as law are unlawful, invalid and null and void as well as are subject to adjudication as fraud in a trial when they have or could have adverse consequences. They must comply with both the US Constitution and its law and US Congressional statutory law in order for them to be lawful and valid. If there is a conflict between these two bodies of law, then the presidential executive orders or military orders must comply foremost with the supreme US Constitution and its law, to which all federal government officials, including members of the US Congress and president and vice president, and personnel swear an oath of allegiance to preserve, uphold and defend or one to such an effect.)

Incidentally, the US Congress has additional powers stated in Article III, which is applicable to the federal judiciary, of the US Constitution.

Section 9

The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a Tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person.

The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.

No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.

No Capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken.

No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State.

No Preference shall be given by any Regulation of Commerce or Revenue to the Ports of one State over those of another; nor shall Vessels bound to, or from, one State, be obliged to enter, clear, or pay Duties in another.

No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.

No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.

Section 10

No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.

Section 3

The US Supreme Court ruling that a US president cannot be prosecuted for illegalities or crimes that he or she commits, or may commit, in the course of his/her executing his/her official duties is a wrongful judicial ruling as it contradicts the text of the US Constitution itself and so is subject to review and a trial of impeachment and vacating of that ruling itself by an independent prosecutor, and team, and all-states, interstate-state, collective constitutional-review supreme court, composed of a lottery-chosen justice from each of the state supreme courts, commissioned and convened by the US Congress for impeachment trying of the wrongful SCOTUS judicial ruling violating the text of the US Constitution, in that provision 7 of section 3 of article 1 of the US Constitution in verbatim states:

Section 3: "The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. When sitting for that Purpose, they shall be on Oath or Affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no Person shall be convicted without the Concurrence of two thirds of the Members present. 'Judgment in Cases of Impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States: but the Party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law'" -- for treason, bribery, or other high crimes or misdemeanors. This prescription, and its language, of the US Constitution makes clear that all government officials, including the US president, are subject to the laws of the United States of America.

Moreover,

Article II (Characterization, powers and governance jurisdiction of the US president as stated in the US Constitution -- relevant excerpts)

Section 1   Section 2   Section 3   Section 4

Section 1

The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same Term, be elected, as follows:

Section 4

"The President, Vice President and all Civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors."

These akin prescriptions, and their language, of the US Constitution make clear that all government officials, including the US president, are subject to the laws of the United States of America.

To pointedly reiterate, the augmented language of Provision 7 of Section 3 of Article 1 to the language of akin Section 4 of Article II of the US Constitution explicitly states that "...but the Party convicted (the government official impeached for treason, bribery, or high crimes or misdemeanors) shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law" -- federal law, and, as applicable, state/wide or within a state constitutional and statutory law.

Furthermore, after the impeachment trial and the vacating of the wrongful SCOTUS ruling, the US Congress should pass a 2/3rds or larger majority-vote act in both of its houses law stating explicitly that all persons in the United States of America as well as those subject to its jurisdiction are fully subject to all of the laws of the USA. This law should also be added, as soon as possible, in and as an amendment to the US Constitution.

No Supreme Court ruling should be subject to a US Congressional impeachment trial of the ruling itself for vacating the ruling except for if a Supreme Court ruling definitively, in whole or part, contradicts the text of the US Constitution, or contradicts factual, objective reality (such as the SCOTUS ruling that a corporation is a [human] person with the rights of persons, whereas it is not a DNA-biological human person nor even a biological organism in any scientific regard). Reputable tenured, expert professors, whether active or emeritus professors, of language, including those with expertise in linguistics and semantics, analytical and logic-based philosophy and the subject-matter applicable science or sciences should be called by the independent prosecutor, interrogator-juror constitutional-review court of state supreme court justices for constitutional text compliance enforcement and the trial jury of the full membership of the US Senate to present testimony and arguments in the impeachment trials of the prima facie-evidenced unconstitutional or unreality judicial rulings of and by SCOTUS.

For a majority of justices of the US Supreme Court to rule that citizens cannot sue or press felony prosecutable charges against US ICE officers or agents or any federal government personnel or office for violating or depriving them of their US Constitutional rights is the equivalent of nullifying their rights and overriding and overthrowing the US Constitution by artifice of judicial treason, fraudulent authority, [falsely] superior to the US Constitution and its law, that they do not genuinely have.

In Memory of the Needless and Ruthless Shooting Death of Renee Nicole Good on 01-07-2026 by a Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency Agent, in Minneapolis, MN, a Volunteer Observer of the Compliance of Federal ICE Agents with the Law and Ethical Treatment in Conducting Their ICE Law Enforcement Work

In Memory of the Needless and Ruthless Shooting Death of Renee Nicole Good on 01-07-2026 by a Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency Agent, in Minneapolis, MN, a Volunteer Observer of the Compliance of Federal ICE Agents with the Law and Ethical Treatment in Conducting Their ICE Law Enforcement Activities

Federal Officials and Personnel of All Occupations and Levels of Service in the US Federal Government Are Subordinate and Wholly Subject to the US Constitution and US Constitutional Law (the Supreme Law and Authority of the United States of America and Which Is the Basis of Their Jobs and Offices of Service, Either Directly or Derivatively) as Well as the Legal and Law-Making Authorities It Confers to the US Congress and Its Statutory Laws that Are Compliant with the US Constitution and Substantially to Those It Confers to the States of the USA and Their Legislatures, When in or Impacting Specifically on Their Jurisdictions, to the Extent that They Do Not Conflict with the US Constitution and the Laws of the US Congress that Are Compliant with the US Constitution

— The US President by law has no law-making authority and presidential executive orders (which are presidential policy directives to Executive Branch operations and personnel for implementation as practices by them and are not laws and cannot overturn any law, whether federal, state or local) that violate US Constitutional law and Congressional and state law in-common and compliant with it are legally invalid and moot, such as any that violates a Bill-of-Rights US Constitutional right of any individual citizen or resident of the USA, including one preferencing, promoting or devaluing any religion, whether it be one or multiple of them, or by the US president with the passive condoning of the US Congressionally prevailing political party, in subterfuge of the US Constitution, designating [oppositional, competitive or objectionable, etc.] Freedom of Speech, including of thought, belief, intellect, sentiment, reading, writing or non-violent kindred religious, social, political and financial affiliations and organizing, also being the US Constitutional right to assemble, for US Constitutionally legal political or social actions or activism, which speech, on the individual or communal-group level, represents and expresses, as terrorism or un-American and subjecting it to justice system investigation, inquisition, abridgement, censorship, suppression and regulation by intimidation, harassment and punishment by US nation-state Trump MAGA-fascist incumbent top governance authority’s and such’s police agencies’ aspersion and demonization labels and labeling and unlawfully and dishonestly mis/treating it as federally criminal conduct or activity and a federal felony crime.

Neither the US Congress itself, the exclusive federal law-making authority of the USA, nor the US president can override, repeal or suspend the US Constitution and/or any of its, by-its-law, prescribed unalienable citizenry rights of its Bill of Rights, nor can they grant legal impunity or amnesty to any person, institution, or entity, etc., for his/her/its or their violation of them, for to attempt to do so would be an illegal attempt to supersede or nullify it, whether momentarily, indefinitely or permanently, which would also be immediately at the same time to nullify therewith their own US Constitutional titles, positions, legitimacy, service compensation and accommodations, and powers, altogether a US Constitutionally subversive act that the state governments would be obligated to not recognize, in protecting, defending and upholding the US Constitution, and would be entitled to prosecute in each and every of their states the so voting, acting or inaction subversive members of the US Congress as well as the president, as they, these subversives of the US Constitution, would also be violating universal individual state law subsuming, encompassing or explicitly subscribing to the US Constitution. Presidential pardons for federal crimes would not and do not apply to same state crimes covered by state laws.

US Vice President JD Vance is wrong to say that ICE agents or officers have complete, or complete blanket, legal immunity for their acts that may cause harm in the course of their performing their duties, for to say such a thing is wrongly to say that they are not subject to, but are exempt from, the laws of the US Constitution and state constitutions and the statutory laws of the US Congress and the states and within-state municipalities, and can legally brutalize and kill as well as violate the federal, state and local constitutional and statutory rights of people arbitrarily, and on any scale, without public, representational, legislative-government and court accountability, in our constitutional bill-of-rights (democratic-rights) republic form-of-government society, which is nonsense and a truly un-American, anti-US Constitution but dictatorial Nazi-fascist society leadership-governance frame-of-mind thinking and mentality.

Meidas_Charise Lee@charise_lee·Jan 9J.D. Vance has a law degree; he graduated from Yale Law School with a Juris Doctor‼️He knows better‼️

Click on the link to view her audio-video: https://x.com/i/status/2009673751332565356

By saying such a thing, with the silence or passivity of most of the mass news and news-related media, the government and civilian legal systems and MAGA-GOP majority memberships of the two houses of Congress and their non-objection to it, he would try to campaign for its acceptance. JD Vance made a similar false assertion in saying to the effect that US presidential powers and decisions are not subject to judicial system review and rulings [as to their compliance with US Constitutional and US Congressional statutory law and lawfulness] as well as that so are not those of US generals in war [albeit they are pursuant to the US military body of law the US Code of Military Justice and the international treaty law of the Geneva Conventions governing the pragmatically ethical conduct of war].

For killings, atrocities and acts of brutality committed by ICE personnel and federal military and other law-enforcement personnel against US citizens and persons within the US observing and witnessing them in their potential such activities, primarily focused on and directed against deemed or perceived to be unlawful immigrants for internment and deportation, etc., or against political or social- and ethical-values critics, viewed as enemies, of them and their such acts and the Trump-MAGA presidency and its MAGA ideology and policies directing them (these administrative bully-thug and brigand goons), VP Vance is furtively advocating and campaigning for the same complacency and largely majority acceptance of and support for the falsehood of their above-the-law legal standing, which is legally impossible, as above in-common federal Constitutional and state law ("the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness...," the rights of due process, as well as to be detained for trial by law enforcement when criminally charged, and not killed or assaulted, unless not practicable or possible during law enforcement when its officers or agents are faced with an unavoidable, actual clear, present and immediate mortal danger, and trial for a legal-system charge of criminal guilt, the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, which includes avoidable homicide and assault by law-enforcement personnel) and legal impunity for these federal personnel for murder and mayhem against individuals of the public, historically an antecedent to gradual and commonplace mass murder and mayhem by them, but newly with US institutional and majority citizenry tolerance and acceptance of it by them. He and much of the publicly visible Trump-MAGA presidential administration show themselves to be anti-US Constitution, which is the basis of our system of government and their governance positions and powers, and against US Congressional and state law and international treaty law, except in the instances of when they support them legally.

Every person in the USA has the right, under self-appointment freelance US Constitutional right of freedom of the press, to monitor, observe, witness and report on the commission of criminal acts and the likelihood or possibility of them in public areas by public or private persons and parties, or their animals, including public officials and authorities. The USA government is the government of, for and by the people, the citizens.

For the Information of Those Outside of and Come from Outside of, and Their Associates and Ideological and Mercenary Activists of within, the United States of America Who Are Politically Crusading and Lobbying to Impose Legal Restrictions on the First Amendment Right of Freedom of Speech of the US Constitution, Forget About It -- Your Efforts Are Doomed, Absolutely So

For the Information of Those Outside of and Come from Outside of, and Their Associates and Ideological and Mercenary Activists of within, the United States of America Who Are Politically Crusading and Lobbying to Impose Legal Restrictions on the First Amendment Right of Freedom of Speech of the US Constitution, Forget About It -- Your Efforts Are Doomed, Absolutely So

The First Amendment law of the US Constitution, the national charter and supreme body of law of the Constitutional Bill-of-Rights (universal, egalitarian citizenry democratic rights) Republic of the USA prescribes that the rights specified therein of freedom of religion, speech, press, peaceful assembly and protest are unalienable and cannot be abridged (cannot be annulled, diminished or censored or censured) by law, any law, of the exclusive law-making branch of the Constitutional Republic of the USA, being the US Congress; thus, they are unalienable rights that cannot be undone or restricted even by the amendment process of the US Constitution, granted in and by the US Constitution itself, since ultimately the US Congress must vote by a supermajority in each of its two Houses to ratify an amendment to or of the US Constitution as law [which the First Amendment of the US Constitution bars and forbids the US Congress from doing to the First Amendment and the rights specified in it, being unalienable rights].

In addition, the US president has no law-making or -revoking authority, not at the federal, state, local nor international levels of government. Presidential executive orders are not laws but are policy and practice directives of the US president to federal executive branch government operations and personnel for adoption and implementation; they must be compliant with US Constitutional law, foremost, and, subordinate only to it, US Congressional federal statutory law, in order for them to be lawful and applicable.

First Amendment of the US Constitution Citation from the Library of the US Congress,

https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-1/ :

"Constitution of the United States

First Amendment

'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.'"