WASHINGTON – United States Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday described as “false” and “extremely dangerous” former President Donald Trump’s accusation that the Justice Department authorized “lethal force” against him in the raid on his mansion. Mar-a-Lago (Florida).
“That allegation is false and extremely dangerous,” he said at a news conference.
This Tuesday, the former Republican president suggested in a fundraising email that the language used in the search warrant implied that the current president, Joe Biden, wanted armed agents to take him down.
On his social network, Truth Social, he noted that “Joe Biden’s Department of Justice authorized the FBI to use lethal force” against him.
His campaign influenced this line by adding in another email that “authorizing the use of ‘lethal force’ against a former president of the United States (and main political rival of the party in power) involves the use of the law as an armed arm, for part of the Biden Administration, to a whole new level.”
“The consequences of the Biden administration’s corrupt negligence and sick desire for revenge could have been catastrophic. Let there be no doubt: corrupt Joe Biden is the biggest threat to democracy and the others are far away,” said that message .
The order they were referring to stated that officers can resort to lethal force when there is a subject who represents an imminent danger of death or serious physical injury to an officer or another person.
The FBI itself responded to these accusations by ensuring that the “standard protocol” was followed in that search, as is done in all similar orders, as well as that “no one ordered additional measures to be taken and there was no deviation from the norm.” about”.
The Florida mansion of the former president and Republican presidential candidate for the November elections was searched in the summer as part of the criminal case opened against him for having taken classified documents from the White House when he left power.
On May 7, Judge Aileen Cannon indefinitely postponed the date of that trial pending the resolution of previous litigation, which makes it very unlikely that the process will take place before the November elections.
Joe Biden’s residence in Delaware was the subject of a similar search by the FBI last year as part of an investigation into the alleged improper use of classified documents.
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