Special counsel seeks court order limiting Trump’s false claims about FBI

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Special counsel seeks court order limiting Trump’s false claims about FBI

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Special counsel Jack Smith filed court papers Friday asking a judge to order Donald Trump not to make any further incendiary claims suggesting that FBI agents were “complicit in a plot to assassinate him.”

In the filing to U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon, Smith argues Trump’s statements earlier this week exposed FBI agents involved in the case “to the risk of threats, violence, and harassment.”

The request caps a tumultuous week in the former president’s far-reaching legal battles. He is preparing for closing arguments Tuesday in his trial in New York, and has made incendiary claims about the origins of the case against him in Florida for allegedly mishandling classified documents and obstructing government efforts to retrieve them.

The new filing underscores the intensity of the fear inside federal law enforcement agencies that someone may take inspiration from Trump’s invective and attack FBI or Justice Department personnel. 

 

It is now OBVIOUS that “complicit in a plot to assassinate him.” IS A LIE.

 

 

 

 

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Garland calls Trump's false claim of Biden DOJ plan to potentially assassinate him during FBI's Mar-a-Lago search 'extremely dangerous'

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Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday slammed former President Donald Trump for insinuating President Joe Biden authorized his potential assassination during the FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago resort in August 2022 for confidential government material, pointing out that a similar Justice Department memo on the use of deadly force was also used in the FBI search of Biden's Wilmington, Delaware, home in January 2023.

Garland called Trump's accusation, which came after documents were unsealed Tuesday by the special counsel investigating the ongoing federal probe into those missing documents, "false and extremely dangerous." 

Any right wingers here going to admit ^this was a HUGE LIE? LMAO
 

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“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. NOW WE KNOW, FOR SURE, THAT JOE BIDEN IS A SERIOUS THREAT TO DEMOCRACY. HE IS MENTALLY UNFIT TO HOLD OFFICE — 25TH AMENDMENT!” — https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/112481173729711738

VERSUS

 

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A recently unsealed document outlining the FBI’s procedure for searching Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in 2022 for classified documents included standard language about the “use of force” in searches. The document, called a law enforcement operations order, explains what agents were permitted to bring with them when they searched Trump’s estate and how they were allowed to operate as part of the search. It also includes boilerplate language from the Justice Department manual about use of force, including the limited circumstances in which agents are authorized to use deadly force. https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/22/politics/donald-trump-fundraising-email-what-matters/index.html

AKA, Trump is INSANE

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Donald Trump Falsely and Outrageously Claims Biden Was Ready to Shoot Him During Mar-a-Lago Raid

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Donald Trump falsely claimed on Tuesday that Joe Biden was ready to shoot him during the 2022 FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago, a reckless assertion that The Washington Post called “an extraordinary distortion of a standard FBI policy on the use of deadly force during such operations.”

The subject line of a fundraising email, which was sent by the campaign and signed by Trump, read: “They were authorized to shoot me!” In reference to the Biden administration, the email claimed, “You know they’re just itching to do the unthinkable… Joe Biden was locked & loaded ready to take me out & put my family in danger.” Meanwhile, Trump wrote on Truth Social: “Crooked Joe Biden’s DOJ, in their Illegal and UnConstitutional Raid of Mar-a-Lago, AUTHORIZED THE FBI TO USE DEADLY (LETHAL) FORCE.”

“The Biden DOJ and FBI were planning to assassinate Pres Trump and gave the green light,” -- Marjorie Taylor Greene outrageously echoed on X.

Trump and Greene, as the Post noted, appear to have been referring—albeit in a completely twisted manner—to a law enforcement document that was released in court filings on Tuesday, which detailed the FBI’s plans for the court-authorized search of Mar-a-Lago, where it was believed (and proven) that the ex-president had been hoarding classified documents. (He has since been charged with willful retention of national defense information and conspiracy to obstruct justice, to which he has pleaded not guilty.) One page of the document contains a “policy statement” concerning the use of deadly force, and it notes that such force can only be used if an officer or another person faces “imminent danger of death or serious physical injury.” In other words, the document is saying the FBI could not use deadly force unless threatened with death or significant injury.

In a statement, the FBI told the Post that it “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.”

Beyond the fact that the document in question does not at all back up what Trump has claimed, the ex-president has also left out some extremely key details in his ravings, like the fact that he wasn’t actually at Mar-a-Lago on the day of the search. And that, as the Post previously reported, the FBI purposely chose a day when he would not be there in order to avoid a confrontation. The Secret Service, which still provides Trump with a security detail, was also given advance warning of the search.

Is it at all surprising that Trump and his allies are saying something that is blatantly untrue? Of course not; it’s par for the course. But this particular lie is extra disturbing because of the lengths to which the ex-president’s supporters can go when they believe—because he told them—that he’s been wronged.

Asked about the document laying out the policy for deadly force and what the ex-president said in the email and online, a Trump spokeswoman accused the Post of engaging in a “sickening attempt to run cover for Joe Biden,” adding in her email: “The good news is, Americans don’t buy the pro-Democrat, Election Interfering pro-Biden propaganda the Washington Post is constantly selling.” 

Trump will tell ANY LIE to grift the RUBES. 🤮