Yeah, yet again - this is pathetic bullshit.
"WOW," a dismayed Trump posted on TruthSocial. "I just came out of the Biden Witch Hunt Trial in Manhattan, the 'Icebox,' and was shown Reports that Crooked Joe Biden’s DOJ, in their Illegal and UnConstitutional Raid of Mar-a-Lago, AUTHORIZED THE FBI TO USE DEADLY (LETHAL) FORCE. NOW WE KNOW, FOR SURE, THAT JOE BIDEN IS A SERIOUS THREAT TO DEMOCRACY.
"HE IS MENTALLY UNFIT TO HOLD OFFICE — 25TH AMENDMENT!"
The unsealed filing details an "operations order" in advance of the 9 a.m. raid created as part of the discovery in the upcoming criminal trial, Newsweek reported.
It contained a "policy statement" that reads: "Law enforcement officers of the Department of Justice may use deadly force when necessary."
Trump confirmed in the Hannity interview that he was in New Jersey at the time of the raid.
The document detailed how agents were ordered to sport unmarked polo or collared shirts and were detailed with "standard issue weapons, ammo, handcuffs and medium and large sized bolt cutters."
There was also a paramedic stationed at the 126-room, 17-acre sprawling estate should anybody be "injured."
MTG is now off to the races.
According to the baseless claim Greene posted on X, President Joe Biden's Justice department and Federal Bureau of Investigations were behind the plot.
"The Biden DOJ and FBI were planning to assassinate Pres Trump and gave the green light," Greene wrote. "I made sure that he knew."
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"Was deadly force authorized against Biden for his docs?" Greene wrote. "Were they going to shoot SS then Pres Trump, Melania, and Barron too???... All of this is unforgivable."
Trump is even fundraising off this crap.
Former President Donald Trump is fundraising over a repeatedly debunked conspiracy theory that claims President Joe Biden was planning to assassinate him when the FBI searched his home for classified documents in 2022.
"Joe Biden was locked & loaded ready to take me out & put my family in danger," Trump said in a fundraising email reportedly sent out on Tuesday night.
The campaign email headline, in all caps, reads: "Biden's DOJ was authorized to shoot me!"
So everyone knows that the FBI carries guns. Everyone knows that the FBI is always authorized to use deadly force in the course of doing their jobs, and specifically in the course of implementing a search warrant.
“The FBI followed standard protocol in this search as we do for all search warrants, which includes a standard policy statement limiting the use of deadly force,” the bureau reportedly said in an official statement.
"No one ordered additional steps to be taken and there was no departure from the norm in this matter."
Everyone knows that Trump wasn’t even there at the time of the warrant. So if they really wanted to “assassinate” him — wouldn’t that require his being there?
None of this is shocking. None of this is news. This is a nothing-burger.
But that MAGAs are losing their minds over it.
And we’ve heard similar nonsense from Maria Bartiromo.
Maria Bartiromo is running wild with Trump's "deadly force" nonsense Bartiromo: Deadly force, does that mean that Biden was authorizing the FBI -- if it came to that and he resisted arrest -- it would be OK to kill Donald Trump? Guest: That's what it seems
The simple fact is that they’re trying to get someone killed.
Dollemore makes, I think, a compelling argument that this isn’t just campaign rhetoric. It’s a deliberate attempt to inspire and foment someone into deadly retaliation. Democrats tried to kill Donald Trump — don’t they deserve death visited upon them in response?
It already happened at Christchurch, it already happened at Tree of Life, it already happened in El Paso, it already happened in Buffalo, it already happened in Allen Texas! If it could happen then — it coiuld happen now.
Meanwhile, back in the world of the rational.
Let’s also point out that FBI didn’t even want to do the search warrant.
The FBI stubbornly pushed back against federal prosecutors’ plans to search former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort for classified documents last year, according to a news report.
Despite ample evidence that Trump had defied a subpoena for return of the documents, senior agents suggested the Justice Department should accept false claims by Trump’s lawyers that he had returned all the top secret materials, the Washington Post reported Wednesday.
“We are not the presidential records police,” Steven D’Antuono, the chief of the FBI’s Washington D.C. field office, reportedly told prosecutors.
The FBI instead wanted to get Trump’s lawyers to agree to a consensual search, a step that would have given the former president the chance to move, hide or destroy the documents.
The infighting resulted in a significant delay between the time prosecutors had evidence that Trump defied the subpoena and when the FBI eventually carried out the explosive search with the blessing of a federal judge on Aug. 8.
Technically Trump’s lawyers had already done a “consensual search” in response to the subpoena — and they lied on the affidavit about it being “complete.” It wasn’t completely, not at all.
And even after the search warrant — even more classified documents were later found at Mar-A-Lago including in Trump’s bedroom.
Donald Trump had more classified documents at Mar-a-Lago that were not originally found when the FBI completed its execution of a search warrant, according to a recently unsealed 87-page court document in special counsel Jack Smith’s prosecution of Donald Trump in the Espionage Act case. Trump faces 40 felony charges in the case, including 32 directly related to classified documents..
“No excuse is provided as to how the former president could miss the classified-marked documents found in his own bedroom at Mar-a-Lago,” U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell wrote, according to Forbes. Howell “notes the government forced Trump’s attorneys to search Trump’s properties even after FBI investigators searched Mar-a-Lago in August 2022.”
Trump’s attorneys conducted searches of some of his other properties after the FBI raid, including his Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, Trump Tower in Manhattan, and other storage units and offices.
More classified documents were located at “an off-site office, a storage unit and at Mar-a-Lago, Howell wrote, noting Trump’s lawyers found a box with four documents that included classified materials in a Mar-a-Lago closet.”
So just blindly trusting him would have obviously been the right call.
Also, let me again point out that this is not a presidential-level decision. This was an issue between DOJ and FBI at the office level — Biden had nothing to do with it.
Former FBI Special Agent Asha Rangappa points out that this is standard procedure.
Attorney and former FBI Special Agent Asha Rangappa observed, "Including the deadly force policy [in] an ops plan is SOP [standard operating procedure]. But just so I make sure I’m following the plot, according to Trump’s position in court, what he is accusing Biden of would be perfectly legal and within the scope of his 'official' powers, right?"
Yes, it’s all perfectly legal.
Let me again point out that when Biden invited the FBI to search his homes and offices for any additional classified documents — which they found — I absolutely guarantee that they brought their guns.
[Edit: This fact has been confirmed by Fox News.]
According to Fox News' Jacqui Heinrich, "A person familiar with the Hur investigation confirms that the standard Department of Justice policy statement regarding the use of deadly force was also included in the operations order for the searches at President Biden’s residences in Delaware."
All of this blather is on top of the recent argument made by Trump’s own attorneys that — as president— he had the power to assassinate a political rival.
A lawyer representing former President Donald Trump argued on Tuesday that a president cannot be prosecuted for ordering the assassination of his political rival unless he is convicted of committing an impeachable offense by the United States Senate.
During questioning before an appeals court, Trump lawyer John Sauer was asked by Judge Florence Y. Pan point-blank if he believed that an impeachment and conviction in the United States Senate would be necessary before prosecuting a president for ordering the military to murder an opponent, and he affirmed that was the case.
Most legal scholars have argued that the United States Constitution makes clear that impeachment is a political and not a legal process.
Therefore, a president who is impeached and removed from office is not therefore also per se convicted criminally, as a separate trial to determine criminality would be necessary should the government decide to press charges against him.
And his lawyers made a similar argument to the Supreme Court.
Trump repeatedly has insisted presidents must have complete and total "absolute immunity." His attorneys have argued in federal court and before the U.S. Supreme Court a president could order Seal Team Six to assassinate his political rival and it would be lawful, as was noted here:
So Trump could assassinate a political rival with Seal Team 6 — but BIDEN and the DOJ following standard FBI procedure is just outrageous.
I say this all the time, I think I previously wrote about this in another article just this week, but exactly where were all these people when Breonna Taylor was killed during the implementation of a search warrant?
(Reuters) -A former Louisville detective is expected to plead guilty on Tuesday to helping to falsify a search warrant that led to the killing of Breonna Taylor, a Black woman whose death fueled a wave of protests over police violence against people of color.
The former officer, Kelly Goodlett, is scheduled to appear at 1 p.m. (1700 GMT) before U.S. District Court Judge Rebecca Grady Jennings in a federal court in Louisville, Kentucky. She is expected to be arraigned and to enter her plea.
Goodlett was one of four former Louisville Metropolitan Police Department detectives charged by the U.S. Justice Department on Aug. 4 for their involvement in the 2020 raid that killed Taylor in her home.
The charges represented the Justice Department's latest attempt to crack down on abuses and racial disparities in policing, following a series of high-profile police killings of Black Americans across the country.
This.
The potential of any situation with law enforcement to escalate into the use of deadly force is an issue that Black and Brown Americans face every single day.
How many of them were upset about Tyre Nicholes being shot during a search warrant?
How many of them were upset about Airman Roger Fortson being shot during a health check?
When Trump asked about this type of situation he angrily argued it wasn’t true.
President Donald Trump praised U.S. police departments and downplayed police violence against Black people, saying 'more white people' are killed by police officers.
This is mis-direcction. Mathematically the total number of people usually killed by police are usually white, but the rate of them being killed compared to how many of them there are in the country tells a completely different story.
Data gathered by the Guardian in 2016 indicates that 10.13 Native Americans per million are killed by police, 6.66 Black people per million and 2.9.White People per million.
So it’s not like the rate of these deaths is anywhere near even. And even if Trump was correct and these deaths were happening more often to White people — woudn’t you expect he’d want to do something about that? Anything?! But he didn’t. He still didn’t give a shit. Some of them are being killed when they’re totally innocent. When they’re totally unarmed. When they're already handcuffed!
Instead, he defended the police and argued “they do an incredible job” in this country. He doesn’t have a concern in the world about Law Enforcement practices or policy — unless it involves HIM. Or White People.
They can kill anyone they like and he’ll offer them “total immunity” while granting himself “complete immunity” for anything and everything.
But Joe Biden, Christopher Wray and Merrick Garland don’t get that consideration, even though they’ve remained entirely within the law and within standard practices and procedures.
This is yet example number 4,032 that nothing the GOP says about anything can be trusted. Everything they claim is either a lie or a gross exaggeration.
Yeah, this is bullshit.
And it’s not an isolated case. This isn’t the only instance where GOP/MAGAs have thrown common sense, logic and facts completely out of the window in order to “Score” a political point. They’ve done it with Election Fraud. They’ve done it with Russian Election Interference. They’ve done it with LGBTQ “Indoctrination”, with CRT and DEI, with claiming “everybody wanted” to overturn Roe, with the claims of “DOJ Weaponization and Lawfare”, they’ve done it on Border Security while blocking the passage of tangible measures that would have helped secure the border, they’ve done it with Jobs and they’ve done it with the issue of Inflation and price gouging.
Every issue that can potentially impact this election and the future of this country — they. are. lying. about.
It’s not an accident. It’s not a coincidence. This is exactly how they plan to gain power and how they plain to hold onto it.
Lies and Bullshit.
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