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Trump claims in fundraising email he 'nearly escaped death' in FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago

posted 24 days ago by robocat893 (14195)
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In an extreme distortion of standard FBI protocol, former President Donald Trump riled up his conservative allies by falsely claiming in a campaign fundraising alert that President Joe Biden's justice department was “locked & loaded ready to take me out" during a 2022 search of his Mar-a-Lago residence for classified documents.

Trump appeared to be referencing court documents unsealed Tuesday in his federal classified documents case. An "Operations Order" for the 2022 search produced in discovery included a routine policy statement on the use of deadly force. It stated "Law Enforcement officers of the Department of Justice may use deadly force when necessary."

"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," the FBI said in a statement to USA TODAY. "No one ordered additional steps to be taken and there was no departure from the norm in this matter."

Trump, however, painted the released order as evidence that Biden's Department of Justice was authorized to shoot him in his fundraising email, alleging he "nearly escaped death."

"You know they're just itching to do the unthinkable," Trump said in an alert asking his supporters for donations. "But here’s the one thing they don’t know: WE WILL NEVER SURRENDER!"

Poor twice impeached four times indicted sexual abuser one term disgraced ex-president Trump. He is such a victim.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-claims-fundraising-email-nearly-180253533.html

[–] Corbell (9317) 24 days ago

When they went to Biden's house, or Hillary's house, did they go with guns drawn?

[–] tvfan (9538) 24 days ago

Tell me that Wray wasn't hoping for a shootout between the feds and Trump's security service.

[–] HarlemEagle42 (16535) 24 days ago

The Cult45 keeps insisting that Trump is gonna be killed by some MAGA boogeyman-of-the-week. Well then, what's been keeping them so long if that was the case? It's been almost eight years since he was elected president and became a 'target'. Maybe they're just waiting for Trump to keel over after consuming an ill-prepared Big Mac.