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 am guessing because it is the only thing that makes sense to a thinking person. Why else would you authorize the use of deadly force? Trump offered to have the people in charge of government records to come down to Mar A Lago to go over the documents as he believed they were not classified and he was able to keep them for his archives for his memoirs. How many secret documents does Obama have in Chicago? No one knows as no one has ever checked.
I wouldn't be surprised if they were hoping Melania would be there; if she was resistant to them rifling through her panty drawer, they would be delighted to tussle her to the floor!
The Eff Bee Eye conducted this raid in order to recover the Crossfire Hurricane documents that were damning towards Hillary Rotten Criminal, Obama, and many others.
Did the jackboots recover them?
If I was President Trump, I would have duplicates stashed in other locations....one buried at the tenth hole at Bedminster, one sealed in a wall at Trump Tower, another hidden at one of Trump’s hotels in Atlantic City, another at his Las Vegas hotel, and a few more outside of the country.
Maybe he did! He’s a smart man.
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.
Leave the country.
My buddy is already searching out land in honduras and costa rica where he ran into a small group of expats from the east coast on his last surfing trip. No way am I gonna spend the second half of my life just complaining online. It already pisses me off to no end what my tax dollars go to. I fully intend to get the F outta here.
*On what grounds did they think they needed to use deadly force on a SITTING FORMER PRESIDENT?!*
They have been lawless, doing what dirty dems do. Congress had done nothing since they overturned the election.
Sounds more like a failed assassination plan!!
This is unbelievably scary! The Biden administration is beyond hateful of Trump! It gives me the creeps to think of Trump’s family possibly being harmed by flying bullets. This regime is evil and needs to be relieved of duty ASAP.
On America’s Voice this evening, on War Room, julie Kelly had the evidence..
The information was opened and shown by judge Canon,
They were going to use deadly force on Secret Service agents and his own security? What did Garland want Ruby Ridge? FBI needs to be shut down. DOJ leadership needs to be removed at the earliest possible moment.
EVERY one of the feds who participated in that raid and accepted that “deadly force” ROI is guilty of treason against this country in my book. Put them on trial, convict and impose the maximum penalty.
“This information should be on fire around the world. Spread it.”
I’m doing my part!
Just shows that everyone is equal.
Don’t doubt for a minute that the same force would be authorized against just about anyone.
(honestly if there is one which is totally unlikely, I would like to see that short list of the people for whom it would not be)
I just made my first ever donation to Donald Trump.
Steve Bannon listened to this from Julie Kelly, and paused for a moment... “They were going to assasinate the President of the United States!”.. He looked in the camera and paused again..
This is America?!
They came looking for a fight.. Looking for the opportunity to kill Trump.
Take it and try to get the fact in your head.. our government is guilty of the worst crime against America!
I don’t think the authorization theoretically extended only to Trump, but the way it is written could mean anyone at Mar-A-Lago who worked or were present there, even his family.
Sorry, Skywise, but a Congressional Investigation in this current political environment will be something less than efficacious.
The need will be a properly empaneled Special Investigator with the scope and resources to bring criminal charges via Grand Jury against ANY of these Anti-American Wokesters and Political Activists who have been hellbent on maintaining Dhimmicrap control of government.
FBI needs to change their Agent Classifications: 00xx: Licensed to Kill (even if you just look at them in a way they don’t like.)
Good catch.
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