From ABCNEWS: Trump falsely claims Biden, FBI had plan to assassinate him during Mar-a-Lago search

Behind Trump’s false claims is a major misrepresentation of an otherwise boilerplate policy memo that was included in newly-unsealed documents that accompanied a filing from Trump’s own lawyers in his classified documents case in Florida on Tuesday.

The memo was part of a ‘Law Enforcement Operations Order’ drawn up by agents preparing to carry out the search of Mar-a-Lago on Aug. 8, 2022, after a magistrate judge agreed the government had shown probable cause that agents would find evidence of unlawfully retained national defense information and obstruction of justice on the premises.

In their search, agents ultimately recovered around 100 documents with classification markings — months after the government subpoenaed Trump for any remaining in his possession, and after the government says it gathered evidence Trump had misled his own lawyers to sign a false certification asserting all such documents had been returned.

“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 FBI said in a statement Tuesday evening. “No one ordered additional steps to be taken and there was no departure from the norm in this matter.”

Multiple former FBI and DOJ officials also confirmed the standard nature of the inclusion of the deadly force policy.

And Trump wasn’t even there when the FBI executed the search warrant

The operations order further shows how agents were well aware Trump would not be present at the property during the search, as it was carried out during Mar-a-Lago’s off-season when Trump normally resides at his property in Bedminster, New Jersey.

Apparently Trump has sent out a fundraising email. 🙂 Because of course that con man did. What kind of a creep accuses the Justice Dept of orchestrating the FBI to kill him while histrionically crying that “I nearly escaped death”? (LOL!) Oh.. Trump. Who’s mentally unfit enough to do this? Not Biden, it’s the kook wannabe.

Merrick Garland came out and called the Trump assassination claim “false” and “dangerous. Cspan link

Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday slammed former President Donald Trump for insinuating President Joe Biden authorized his potential assassination during the FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago resort in August 2022 for confidential government material, pointing out that a similar Justice Department memo on the use of deadly force was also used in the FBI search of Biden’s Wilmington, Delaware, home in January 2023.

Garland called Trump’s accusation, which came after documents were unsealed Tuesday by the special counsel investigating the ongoing federal probe into those missing documents, “false and extremely dangerous.”

“The document that has been referred to in the allegation is the Justice Department’s standard policy, limiting the use of force as the FBI advises it as part of the standard operations plan for searches,” he told reporters at an unrelated news conference. “And in fact, it was even used in the consensual search of President Biden’s home.”

Incidentally, compare this baloney with one of Trump’s arguments to the Supreme Court on why he would have complete presidential immunity, that a president can murder his political rivals.

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