Trump mistake #1 as I see it: Bringing the Maduros onto US soil [View all]

Rather than kill them or take them to Guantanamo, where they could rot forever with no due process, he chose to take them to the United States, where they are entitled to all the due process afforded to any other person put on trial under the Constitution.

This raises so many issues that have never been dealt with before, starting with the legality of kidnapping a foreign head of state and bringing him here with no due process whatsoever under extradition laws or treaties. Then there are issues of immunity very similar to those ruled on by SCOTUS in Trump's own criminal cases. Even if Trump crosses that bridge successfully, the US must prove to 12 jurors that the Maduros were personally behind all the drug trafficking and that somehow foreign heads of state are subject to US weapons laws when they never have stepped foot in America. These are not easy issues. And, ultimately, what if they are found not guilty? How stupendously disastrous would that be for the US?