Attorney General Merrick Garland, who notably “personally approved” the FBI’s August 2022 raid on former President Donald Trump’s Florida home, said Tuesday that allegations that the Department of Justice and its principal investigative arm greenlit authorization to “kill the former president” during the Mar-a-Lago raid are “false.”
“The allegation is false. As the FBI has explained, the document that’s being discussed is our standard use-of-force protocol, which is a limitation on the use of force, which is routinely part of the package for search warrants and was part of the package for the search of President Biden’s home as well,” Garland claimed during his testimony to the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday.
Garland even went so far as to claim that suggesting the FBI could have killed Trump that day, not the reality that the FBI could have killed Trump that day, is “dangerous” and “raises threats of violence” against employees of the DOJ and FBI.
A recently unsealed operations order about the Trump raid confirms the FBI was authorized to use “deadly force” against the Republican and any of the Mar-a-Lago staff if they deemed it “necessary.” FBI agents on the scene were equipped with “Standard Issue Weapon, Ammo, [and] Handcuffs” and “medium and large sized bolt cutters” in their quest to sift through Trump’s presidential belongings.
Shortly after the key documents were publicized, Trump accurately noted in several campaign fundraising emails that “Biden’s DOJ was authorized to shoot me!” Nothing about Trump’s statement was inaccurate, yet corrupt corporate media
