Posted on 05/21/2024 3:46:10 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The FBI was authorized to use “deadly force” against former President Donald Trump when the Biden administration agency raided Mar-a-Lago in search of classified documents, according to newly unsealed court documents shared on X by independent journalist Julie Kelly.
Attorney General Merrick Garland personally approved the unprecedented raid on Trump’s Florida home in the summer of 2022, after which special counsel Jack Smith indicted Trump for allegedly mishandling classified documents. Notably, President Joe Biden also retained classified documents following his tenure as vice president but was not charged by his own Justice Department because prosecutors said he would likely “present himself to the jury, as he did during our interview with him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
A newly unsealed operations order reveals the FBI was authorized to use deadly force against the former president if need be, Kelly reported.
“According to an ‘Operations Order’ produced in discovery, the FBI believed its objective for the Mar-a-Lago raid was to seize ‘classified information, NDI [national defense information], and US Government records as described in [the] search warrant,'” the filing by Trump’s legal team states.
“The Order contained a ‘Policy Statement’ regarding ‘Use Of Deadly Force,’ which stated, for example, ‘Law enforcement officers of the Department of Justice may use deadly force when necessary …’,” according to the filing. “The agents planned to bring ‘Standard Issue Weapon[s],’ ‘Ammo,’ ‘Handcuffs,’ and ‘medium and large sized bolt cutters,’ but they were instructed to wear ‘unmarked polo or collared shirts’ and to keep ‘law enforcement equipment concealed.'”
Tons of new unsealed filings on classified docs case–I will try to post as much as I can (there goes the workout) but this is mind-blowing.
FBI authorized the use of deadly force at Mar-a-Lago
pic.twitter.com/f0lR6UifAH— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) May 21, 2024
The FBI also provided “coordinating instructions” on the use of deadly force.
Here is the use of deadly force instructions attached to the FBI's operational instructions.
Head of Washington FBI field office when this was executed: Steven D'Antuono.
Recall who authorized the raid: Merrick Garland
The FBI risked the lives of Donald Trump, his family, his his staff, and MAL guests for a publicity stunt to make it look like Trump stole national security files.People need to be arrested for this.
pic.twitter.com/XHHLDYqWgV— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) May 21, 2024
Screenshots of the filing posted by Kelly suggest agents were prepared to confront Trump and his Secret Service agents if the need arose.
“Should [former President of the United States] arrive at [Mar-a-Lago], FBI MM EM and OSCs will be prepared to engage with FPOTUS and USSS Security Team,” read a “Contingencies” list from the filing. (MM may be a reference to the Miami FBI office, and OSC appears to refer to the office of Special Counsel Jack Smith.) The list also included instructions in case the Secret Service were to “provide resistance or interfere with FBI timeline or accesses.”
The filings also included exhibits indicating agents searched both Melania and Barron Trump’s rooms, and were prepared to go door-to-door throughout Mar-a-Lago “to determine occupation status” of each room if the staff did not provide “a list of occupied guest rooms.”
Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon indefinitely postponed the trial in Smith’s lawfare case against the former president after the DOJ admitted it tampered with evidence. Smith admitted that some of the documents seized during the raid were not kept in the same order in which they were originally found while others may have been misplaced entirely, as my colleague Tristan Justice noted.
[READ NEXT: Federal Agency Had ‘Pallets’ Of Documents Sent To Mar-A-Lago One Year Before DOJ Raid]
WHY? On what grounds did they think they needed to use deadly force on a SITTING FORMER PRESIDENT?!
Garland needs to step down immediately and Congress MUST investigate this obvious corruption in our government.
And if they’re too scared to - then the people need to make their voices heard and take back the government.
Lock up the seditious meritless Garland.
This just popped up on my computer. Looks like this is going to get coverage that can’t be swept under the rug....’Bout time!
Fools. Gives Trump even more ammunition amd lots to talk about in South Bronx on Thursday.
why is a life flight Not/Applicable ? why 18 to 20 minute ride instead ?, so trumps can bleed out in traffic ? spit
I would pull every search warrant issued to that office and review them to see if every warrant instruction allowed for the use of Deadly Force.
It sounds like cookie cutter crap by some moron FBI agent. No LE organization Ike’s working with the FBI. They tend to be a holes.
fixed it
"Garland lacked the power to appoint Smith because the attorney general has no authority to appoint a “private citizen to receive extraordinary criminal law enforcement power under the title of Special Counsel.” "
We are at a boiling point already here in America. Something gonna give … people are very pissed off depressed angry you name it whether it be the elections or can’t get jobs or can’t afford to buy a house or groceries or letting millions of illegals steal what belongs rightfully to hard-working tax payers etc., etc. Funding$$$$$$$ wars, Climate change hoax, trying to take our gas cars, and our guns etc. etc. We are a powder keg ready to go off.
“ Garland needs to step down immediately”
Who is going to make him? Don’t bother calling Congress, most of them are in on the game.
I disagree.
Did the Russians revolt against Vladimir Putin? His power base is in St. Petersburg and Moscow.
Joe Biden has the same in L.A., NYC and D.C.
We'll complain on the internet. But even that won't last much longer. TikTok. Twitter. Then FR will be up next on the list.
We'll just watch Netflix instead.
This information should be on fire around the world. Spread it.
That is absolutely chilling to read.
Everything waa in place.
It’s a good thing Trump wasn’t there.
If you’re willing to start a militia, I’ll join you. Other than that, I don’t understand what we’re supposed to do.
And once again we all realize who ordered jfk’s killing it was always our own govt always knew it and knowing this is confirmation
Wray is responsible, prosecute, convict and jail him.
The plan was killing his entire family including Barron and melania
They were hoping he would be there knowing trump he would have thrown a fit at these schmucks in his house and they would have killed him and called it justified
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