AG Merrick Garland rips Trump’s ‘dangerous’ lie the FBI wanted to assassinate him and clarifies agents were also authorized to use force when raiding Biden’s home
Attorney General Merrick Garland addressed the consequences of the former president on Tuesday Donald Trump‘s false claim that the FBI was given permission to kill him during the 2022 Mar-a-Lago attack.
Garland was testifying before the House Judiciary Committee when Democratic Party member Jerry Nadler asked him how Trump’s wild accusations affected those working at the Justice Department.
The attorney general responded that this “increases the threat of violence against prosecutors and career police officers.”
“This is dangerous,” Garland testified.
“The accusation is false,” he continued. “As the FBI has explained, the document under discussion is our standard use of force protocol, which includes a limitation on the use of force, and which is routinely part of the search warrant package and was part of the search package . also from President Biden’s home.’
Attorney General Merrick Garland spoke Tuesday about the fallout from former President Donald Trump’s false claim that the FBI had permission to kill him during the 2022 Mar-a-Lago raid
After a court filing of the case containing classified documents was unsealed last month, former President Donald Trump pushed a wild story that the FBI would kill him during the August 2022 Mar-a-Lago raid.
The murder conspiracy theory emerged after a lawsuit was unsealed last month in the case with secret documents saying federal agents were prepared to use “deadly force” in conducting the Aug. 8 search of Trump’s Florida property.
In the former president’s motion to challenge the legality of the FBI raid, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, the filing notes an “Operation Order” prepared for discovery that contained a “statement of policy” regarding “use of deadly force.” ‘
The filing states that the order states “for example, ‘Department of Justice law enforcement officers may use deadly force if necessary…'”
It also states that “the officers intended to take a ‘Standard Issue Weapon.'[s]“Ammunition,” “Handcuffs,” and “medium and large bolt cutters,” but they were ordered to wear “unmarked polo or collared shirts” and “keep law enforcement equipment concealed.”
Trump posted on Truth Social after leaving criminal court in New York and seeing “reports that were crooked.” Joe Biden“The DOJ, during their illegal and unconstitutional raid on Mar-a-Lago, ALLOWED the FBI TO USE DEADLY (DEADLY) FORCE.”
He also sent a fundraising email with the subject line “They were authorized to shoot me!”
In another Truth Social post, Trump claimed the FBI was ready to engage in a shootout with his Secret Service.
During Tuesday’s testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, Attorney General Merrick Garland said the same search warrant language was used when President Joe Biden’s home in Delaware was searched for classified materials.
Trump expanded on the baseless and shocking claim that President Joe Biden was “locked and loaded, ready to take me out” when Mar-a-Lago was raided by FBI agents in August 2022.
The ex-president recalled how he got the Secret Service when he ran for the White House against “Beautiful” in 2016. Hillary Clinton.’
‘Shockingly, though, Crooked Joe Biden‘The Department of Justice authorized the use of “deadly force” in their illegal, unconstitutional, and un-American raid on Mar-a-Lago, and that would also apply to our Big Secret Service, whom they believed were “in the line of fire,” Trump claimed.
“As I told the Crooked Joe DOJ, if they needed anything, all they had to do was ask,” the ex-president continued. ‘She “I didn’t have to illegally and unconstitutionally invade my home and rummage through my family’s private quarters, including Barron’s.”
He then ended the Truth post by using all caps: “END THESE WITCH HUNTS IN THE THIRD WORLD AND MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
