Marjorie Taylor Greene was outraged by revelations that the FBI was ‘prepared to use deadly force’ in its raid of Donald Trump‘s Mar-a-Lago resort and suggested Joe Biden was planning to assassinate him.
A new court filing unsealed on Tuesday in the Trump classified documents case revealed federal agents were prepared to use ‘deadly force’ when executing the 2022 raid.
Greene, a devoted Trump ally, reacted to the news furiously, suggesting that President Biden, his DOJ and the FBI were prepared to kill his predecessor.
‘The Biden DOJ and FBI were planning to assassinate Pres Trump and gave the green light,’ Greene wrote on X Tuesday. ‘I made sure that he knew.’
Trump apparently got the message, as he fumed at the news on his Truth Social account, writing that the ‘Illegal and UnConstitutional Raid of Mar-a-Lago’ had ‘AUTHORIZED THE FBI TO USE DEADLY (LETHAL) FORCE.’
Marjorie Taylor Greene was outraged by revelations that the FBI was ‘prepared to use deadly force’ in its raid of Donald Trump ‘s Mar-a-Lago resort and suggests Joe Biden was planning to assassinate him
‘NOW, WE KNOW, FOR SURE, THAT JOE BIDEN IS A SERIOUS THREAT TO DEMOCRACY,’ Trump continued. ‘HE IS MENTALLY UNFIT TO HOLD OFFICE – 25TH AMENDMENT!’
The FBI issued a rare statement stating that they ‘follow standard protocol’ in the search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.
‘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,’ they told ABC News.
The former president was at his Bedminster golf club in New Jersey on August 8, 2022, the day of the raid.
He also sent out a fundraising email with the subject line ‘They were authorized to shoot me!’
Greene wondered where the permissions of the raid would’ve stopped: ‘Were they going to shoot [Secret Service] then Pres Trump, Melania, and Barron too???’
She used the news as another feather in her cap for attacking Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson.
‘Speaker Mike Johnson fully funded the DOJ and FBI plus new building and tied our hands behind our backs to hold them accountable,’ she wrote. ‘We have the power of the purse and Johnson has handed the purse to Chuck Schumer. All of this is unforgivable.’
‘I tried to oust our Speaker who funded Biden’s DOJ AND FBI, but Democrats stopped it.’
She also suggested that FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland should be impeached.
Greene, a devoted Trump ally, reacted to the news furiously, suggesting that President Biden, his DOJ and the FBI were prepared to kill his predecessor
A new court filing unsealed on Tuesday in the Trump classified documents case revealed federal agents were prepared to use ‘deadly force’ when executing the 2022 raid. Pictured: Authorities standing outside Mar-a-Lago
That raid on the ex-president’s home ended with the FBI seizing hundreds of documents containing classified information.
Trump, 77, is now criminally charged for mishandling top secret documents taken to his Florida estate after he left office.
In the former president’s motion challenging the legality of the FBI’s raid filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, the filing notes an ‘Operation Order’ produced in discovery which contained a ‘Policy Statement’ regarding ‘Use of Deadly Force.’
The filing says the Order states ‘for example, ‘Law enforcement officers with the Department of Justice may use deadly force when necessary…”
It also says ‘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.'”
The agents started the raid around 9am on August 8, 2022 and stayed until around 6:40pm.
Trump’s legal team has previously argued that the raid of Mar-a-Lago was unconstitutional.
The ex-president pleaded not guilty to 37 criminal charges in the case, some of which carry a penalty of up to 20 years in prison.
Trump is accused of enlisting aides and lawyers to help him hide the records officials requested he return.
Unsealed documents on Tuesday also revealed that Trump’s lawyers found additional classified documents in the ex-president’s bedroom months after the August raid.
The revelation was detailed in an unsealed opinion from Judge Beryl Howell from March 2023 where she found prosecutors brought sufficient evidence that Trump mishandled classified documents.
The opinion states that even after the raid, more classified-marked documents were uncovered in November 0222 in a leased storage unit, in the office at Mar-a-Lago in December 2022 and ‘apparently sometime thereafter in the former president’s own bedroom at Mar-a-Lago.’
The judge wrote further down ‘Notably, no excuse is provided as to how the former president could miss the classified-marked documents found in his own bedroom at Mar-a-Lago.’
Earlier this month, Trump-appointed District Judge Aileen Cannon postponed the classified documents trial indefinitely.
She cited a number of outstanding pre-trial issues to be resolved.
