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]
I hope you are right.
Certainly makes it all the more plausible.
They were after Obama era secret documents that show Obama was into something illegal. I’m guessing they were found and taken and destroyed. Hence, the fiasco of them shuffling the papers and then taking photos.
How do you know this?
Did Biden leak this to get stronger leftist support? Because all the leftists I know would be very happy about this story.
“It’s a good thing Trump wasn’t there.”
If you actually read the documents, they knew he wouldn’t be there when they raided MAL. The document discussed how they would handle it if Trump returned while they were searching (have someone engage with or talk to Trump and the SS agents, presumably to keep them out of the building while the search was conducted). That’s why all of these hysterical claims that it was an attempted assassination are so ridiculous.
I doubt that the authorization to use deadly force had Trump or the SS in mind, but rather were in case any of the keyboard warriors who keep calling for Wray, Garland and others to be hanged decided to do more than talk…
So the FBI was authorized to asassinatie the President?
I hope Trump has these criminals arrested from Garland on down
Proving my point I think they will JFK\RFK Trump before November...
“Other than that, I don’t understand what we’re supposed to do.”
Don’t expect an answer. FR is infested with punk agitators who expect other people to saddle up, ride out and fix whatever problems they perceive, while they sit on their fat asses and do nothing.
Thats just from the New York Post. Will probably never be printed in the New York Times and sadly, it ain’t a scandal unless the New York Times says it’s a scandal. See Tagline.
It wouldn’t surprise me if the whole point of the raid was to stumble into a situation where they shot President Trump and the witnesses
Was Trump there during the fake raid and were they hoping he gets shot ?
The Democrat Party Organized Crime Syndicate includes FBI employees.
In the report it shows the feds wanted Trump to be there..of course they did, they wanted Trump to throw a fit, which most likely he would have done, seeing these clowns storm his house, they would have shot him and said “He was lunging at us it was totally justified”
I doubt that the authorization to use deadly force had Trump or the SS in mind, but rather were in case any of the keyboard warriors who keep calling for Wray, Garland and others to be hanged decided to do more than talk…
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any other revealations for us, or are you done outing youreself ?
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There are several threads here tonight on the subject...it’s getting circulated well here for sure. I probably missed some..
Federalist
Declassified with Julie Kelly
Mtn Climber - FR vanity
They would have shot him over documents he declassified. I believe they absolutely relished the hopes of a confrontation. Then who knows what they would have put on his body. I recall in recent court procedings they had to fess up to planting “top secret” pages on the docs at Maro Lago.
Fed! Fed! Fed!
Trump and his family were in New York.
But what about the Secret Service? Every former president and former first lady have Secret Service protection for life.
Was the SS informed BEFORE the raid? Otherwise, they would have thought armed terrorists were invading the president’s home (they were) and would have fought them with every weapon at their disposal. Did they know FBI agents were on their way to Mar-a-Lago? Something I’ve wondered since it happened.
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