The Biden administration licensed the use of lethal pressure through the FBI’s raid on former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property in Florida in August 2022 as half of its investigation into labeled information, court docket paperwork revealed.
“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. No one ordered additional steps to be taken and there was no departure from the norm in this matter,” the FBI advised Fox News in a press release Tuesday.
An “Operations Order” produced in discovery as half of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into Trump’s alleged improper retention of labeled information revealed that the “FBI believed its goal for the Mar-a-Lago raid was to grab ‘classified information, NDI, and US Government records,’” as described in the search warrant.
The order, based on a court docket submitting, contained a “Policy Statement” concerning “Use of Deadly Force,” which acknowledged, for instance, “Law Enforcement officers of the Department of Justice may use deadly force when necessary.”
FLASHBACK: TRUMP SAYS MAR-A-LAGO HOME IN FLORIDA ‘UNDER SIEGE’ BY FBI AGENTS
This view reveals the Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida. (Charles Trainor Jr./Miami Herald/Tribune News Service through Getty Images/File)
According to the submitting, the DOJ and FBI brokers “planned to bring ‘Standard Issue Weapons,’ ‘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.”
Trump, who spent one other day in a New York City courtroom for his unprecedented prison trial stemming from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s investigation into Trump allegedly falsifying enterprise information, reacted to the revelations Tuesday afternoon.
The FBI has been criticized for raiding former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence. (Fox News)
“WOW! I just came out of the Biden Witch Hunt Trial in Manhattan, the ‘Icebox,’ and was shown Reports that Crooked Joe Biden’s DOJ, in their Illegal and UnConstitutional Raid of Mar-a-Lago, AUTHORIZED THE FBI TO USE DEADLY (LETHAL) FORCE,” Trump posted on his Truth Social. “NOW WE KNOW, FOR SURE, THAT JOE BIDEN IS A SERIOUS THREAT TO DEMOCRACY.”
FEDERAL JUDGE POSTPONES TRUMP’S CLASSIFIED RECORDS TRIAL WITH NO NEW DATE
Trump added, “HE IS MENTALLY UNFIT TO HOLD OFFICE — 25TH AMENDMENT!”
This picture contained in a DOJ court docket submitting on Aug. 30, 2022, and redacted in half by the FBI, reveals a photograph of paperwork seized through the Aug. 8, 2022, search by the FBI of former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property in Florida. (Department of Justice through AP)
Trump was charged out of Smith’s investigation into his retention of labeled supplies. Trump pleaded not responsible to all 37 felony fees from Smith’s probe, together with willful retention of nationwide protection data, conspiracy to hinder justice, and false statements.
Trump was additionally charged with an extra three counts as half of a superseding indictment out of the investigation: a rely of willful retention of nationwide protection data and two obstruction counts.
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Trump pleaded not guilty.
The federal choose presiding over the case, Judge Aileen Cannon of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, postponed the trial stemming from Smith’s case indefinitely. The trial was set to start May 20.