Posted on 05/23/2024 7:36:44 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
MAGA Donald Trump supporters have rallied behind the former president after he released FBI paperwork, connected to its search of his Mar-a-Lago residence, showing agents were permitted to use "deadly force."
On Tuesday, Trump shared on his social media platform Truth Social the information revealed by an unsealed search warrant in his classified documents case which said that federal agents were prepared to use "deadly force" when executing the raid of his Florida resort.
After the news broke, former Trump strategist Steve Bannon and Trump ally Mike Davis discussed what they called an "assassination" plot by the bureau.
A post on X, formerly Twitter, by user @TRHLofficial, on May 22, 2024, stated: "Steve Bannon and Mike Davis detail the assassination attempt of Donald Trump. 'If we tolerate this, we tolerate the end of this republic.'".....
Trump's post inflamed his supporters and his allies in the Republican Party, who repeated the assassination claims.
Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Trump loyalist known for her previous support for several QAnon conspiracy theories, immediately escalated the former president's accusations and wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that "the Biden DOJ and FBI were planning to assassinate Pres. Trump and gave the green light."
False.
There was no "assassination attempt" on Donald Trump by the FBI. The use of "deadly force" as contained in now unsealed search warrant documents is boiler-plate procedural text used by the bureau.
FACT CHECK BY Newsweek's Fact Check team
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if it was a standard operation then they would’ve used local FBI agents. instead, they flew a team from wash dc to conduct the raid.
that was their hit squad.
You speak sanity. There is no way they were looking to assassinate him that night.
IMO, this was overkill as they were looking to send a message. Not to Trump, but to any of us who dare challenge the deep state.
Revelation of secret Obama-era program casts
doubt on stated reason for Trump Mar-a-Lago raid
By Emma Colton, Thu, May 23, 2024, yahoonews.com
FIRST ON FOX: A purportedly never-before-seen Department of Defense memo from the Obama era appears to indicate the federal government already may have had original copies of the documents seized at former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida in 2022, raising serious questions about the pretext for the raid, Fox News Digital has exclusively learned.
America First Legal (AFL), a conservative legal group, released Thursday what it says is a newly unearthed memo from the Obama administration Department of Defense “confirming the government may have already had originals of the alleged classified documents involved in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s sham prosecution against President Trump.”
The document, titled Memorandum of Understanding Entered into by Presidential Information Technology Community Entities, is from 2015, and followed an October 2014 Russian breach of the Executive Office of the President’s network. Then-President Barack Obama took executive action to create the Presidential Information Technology Community (PITC) to better protect the executive branch from such attacks, according to AFL.
The PITC, which includes representatives from federal agencies such as the Department of Defense and Homeland Security, effectively established that the president controls information he receives through the PITC network.
America First Legal on Thursday released what it says is a newly unearthed memo from the Obama administration.
The executive action was made public at the time. However, AFL said it obtained a never-before-seen memo confirming the Department of Defense has been “operating and maintaining the information resources and information systems provided to the President, Vice President, and Executive Office of the President.”
READ ON THE FOX NEWS APP LINK-—JUDGE UNSEALS FBI FILES IN TRUMP CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS CASE, INCLUDING DETAILED TIMELINE OF MAR-A-LAGO RAID
The memo could mean that the federal government has stored and retained Executive Office of the President documents, including “a substantial amount, if not all, of President Trump’s classified documents,” AFL said in its press release.
“What America First Legal has uncovered after months of investigative work paints an unfortunate picture of the rule of law in Washington. A former President of the United States — the most democratically accountable officer under our Constitution — was subject to a politicized referral concocted by the Biden White House that led to an armed FBI raid of his home — where his wife and youngest child live — and is now subject to prosecution,” America First Legal Vice President Dan Epstein said.
LINK——GOP SLAMS ‘WEAPONIZATION’ OF DOJ AFTER TRUMP’S MAR-A-LAGO RAIDED BY FBI; DEMS CALL IT ‘ACCOUNTABILITY’
“And to now realize that the Biden Administration could have avoided an illegal referral process to recover records the government already possessed, that it could have used normal means to ensure that records the former president believed should be housed in his presidential library (not yet built because of the hordes of investigations aimed at silencing him) were subject to a temporary hold for purposes of Archives’ review — yet didn’t — speaks loudly to America: the law protects only those who follow the norms of one party,” Epstein added.
Trump’s classified documents case also opened the doors to investigations regarding classified documents in the possession of President Biden. AFL obtained the documents through litigation against the Department of Defense, the press release said.
The DOD told Fox News Digital on Thursday that the department has “nothing to offer” when asked about the memo. The White House and DOJ did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s requests for comment.
The FBI agents seized 33 boxes of documents in August 2022 from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, spurring another legal battle that Trump has called a “scam.” The investigation is overseen by special prosecutor Jack Smith, whom Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed to the job, and has charged Trump with 40 felony counts, including allegedly violating the Espionage Act, making false statements to investigators and conspiracy to obstruct justice.
The FBI at the time told a judge there was “probable cause to believe” that classified documents at Mar-a-Lago were being improperly stored and that investigators would find “evidence of obstruction.”
Trump has pleaded not guilty to the charges, and slammed the case as an “Election Inference Scam” promoted by the Biden administration and “Deranged Jack Smith.”
The memo’s disclosure on Thursday would not, by itself, absolve Trump of any potential wrongdoing in the case; however, it appears to challenge the initial justification for the raid.
The document is only the latest revelation raising questions about the government’s actions and motivations in the lead-up to the raid.
Presiding Judge Aileen Cannon recently unredacted more than 300 pages of evidence in the case, including emails and conversations related to the Biden administration’s contact with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) the year before the documents were seized from Trump’s home, Real Clear Investigations reported. Biden has publicly said he was not involved in the case, though the filings show other White House officials were involved in the early stages of the investigation.
The documents unredacted by Cannon appear to indicate that just weeks after Trump left office in 2021, the White House Office of Records Management under the Biden administration began working with NARA “on exaggerated claims related to records handling under the Presidential Records Act,” Trump’s attorney wrote in a court filing to compel discovery.
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Fox News Original article source: “Revelation of secret Obama-era program casts doubt on stated reason for Trump Mar-a-Lago raid.”
“what could go wrong?”
Repeating the government line isn’t fact checking. Acting as if raiding an ex president’s home in full battle rattle to secure some papers is normal or acceptable isn’t rational.
Yes….i think he was tipped off because Melania and Barron were also not there.
What I want to know is:
Who signed the warrant, and:
What evidence was presented to this judge to sign off on it...
That’s all.....
DeSantis?
Just in case someone was stubbornly clinging to life who shouldn't have been.
The FBI has been murdering people with impunity for decades.
This is just typical banana republic stuff.
That's where we are.
This story becomes REAL NEWS when the perps are arrested, tried, convicted and sent to the Big House!
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