President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House on Wednesday. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

If nothing else, the controversy over the Trump administration’s second strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean has surfaced a long-overdue debate about its already legally dubious first strikes.

While some have warned the second strike on survivors might be a war crime , the first strikes that have killed more than 80 people already looked a lot like murder , given the lack of a declared war.

But President Donald Trump has little use for all that legal analysis. As usual, he just thinks it’s good policy and politics, and that’s what matters. You’re either for the alleged drug-traffickers, or you’re against them .

Asked Wednesday whether he would punish anyo

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