President Donald Trump is making it clear that he won't be constrained by the law as he continues teasing a takeover of the Western Hemisphere.

“I don’t need international law,” Trump said in a new interview with The New York Times. “I’m not looking to hurt people.”

When pressed further, the president said he understood that his administration would need to abide by international laws. However, he added, "It depends what your definition of international law is."

• President Donald Trump said that his only guardrail as he looks to obtain more global power is "my own morality"

• In a new interview with The New York Times, he said he doesn't "need international law" to dictate his approach to foreign policy

• Also in the interview, the president doubled down on his plans to take military action in Latin America, annex Greenland and more

There is, Trump insisted, just "one thing" that can curtail his desire for global supremacy: "My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me."

The interview comes less than a week after U.S. forces, under Trump's direction, captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, first lady Cilia Flores, amid "large-scale strikes" on the capital city of Caracas, and brought them to the U.S. to stand trial on multiple charges related to narco terrorism.

Though Venezuela has installed an interim leader, Delcy Rodríguez, Trump has stated many times that the United States is now in charge of running the independent nation.

"It's going to be run very judiciously, very fairly. And it's gonna make a lot of money," he previously said. "You know they stole our oil. We built that whole industry and they just took it over like we were nothing. So we did something about it. We're late, but we did something about it."

He later added, "We'll be selling large amounts of oil [from Venezuela] to other countries... We're going to get the oil flowing the way it should be."

"We're gonna make sure the people of Venezuela are taken care of... You're going to have peace, justice...you're going to have a real country."

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