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The John Batchelor Show

Richard Epstein analyzes James Comey's indictment as presidential vengeance using a potentially strong legal case. He argues Trump acts illegally in Venezuela to be feared, benefiting from lack of legal resistance.

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Arts, Society & Culture, Books, News

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Richard Epstein analyzes James Comey's indictment as presidential vengeance using a potentially strong legal case. He argues Trump acts illegally in Venezuela to be feared, benefiting from lack of legal resistance.

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This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Batchel. Spending time with my colleague Richard Epstein,

0:36.8

and we move from domestic matters in the U.S. to international contest. This is between Washington and Caracas, between the Trump administration one, Trump

0:41.4

administration two, and a man named Nicholas Maduro, who is condemned with a $50 million

0:47.5

bounty on his head as the head of a drug cartel called Cartel of the Sun, responsible for

0:53.7

running drugs such as fentanyl and worse into the

0:56.7

United States and killing people with those drugs. The Maduro claim is to be the president of

1:04.9

Venezuela, a very powerful and rich state once upon a time. However, in the summer of 24, there was an election in which Maduro abused all understandable policies

1:17.7

and stole it, claiming he continued president.

1:21.2

There is a real president, Gonzalez, he was elected and recognized by international favor.

1:28.2

However, he is in exile or in re-jepardy if he were to show himself in Caracas until

1:34.0

Maduro departs.

1:35.7

All that is background for the question I have for the professor.

1:39.3

There are three or four instances over these last days of the U.S. opening fire on alleged drug-running boats

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