Marjorie Taylor Greene was outraged by revelations that the FBI was “prepared to use lethal force” in its raid on Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort and suggested Joe Biden planned to kill him.
A new court filing unsealed Tuesday in Trump’s classified documents case found that federal agents were prepared to use “deadly force” in carrying out the 2022 raid.
Greene, a devoted Trump ally, reacted angrily to the news, suggesting that President Biden, his DOJ and the FBI were prepared to assassinate his predecessor.
“The Biden DOJ and FBI planned to kill President Trump and gave the green light,” Greene wrote on X on Tuesday. “I made sure he knew.”
Trump apparently got the message, as he raged about the news on his Truth Social account, writing that the “illegal and unconstitutional raid on Mar-a-Lago” had “authorized THE FBI to use lethal (deadly) force to use.’
Marjorie Taylor Greene was outraged by revelations that the FBI was ‘prepared to use lethal force’ in its raid on Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort and suggests Joe Biden planned to kill him
“NOW WE KNOW FOR CERTAIN THAT JOE BIDEN IS A SERIOUS THREAT TO DEMOCRACY,” Trump continued. “HE’S MENTALLY UNFIT FOR A CRAFT – 25TH AMENDMENT!”
The former president was at his Bedminster golf club in New Jersey on August 8, 2022, the day of the raid.
He also sent a fundraising email with the subject line “They were authorized to shoot me!”
Greene wondered where the permissions for the raid would have stopped: “Were they going to start shooting?” [Secret Service] then also Pres Trump, Melania and Barron???’
She used the news as another feather in her cap to attack Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson.
“Speaker Mike Johnson fully funded the DOJ and FBI plus the 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 this is inexcusable.’
“I tried to impeach our chairman who funded Biden’s DOJ AND FBI, but the Democrats stopped it.”
She also suggested that FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland be impeached.
Greene, a committed Trump ally, reacted angrily to the news, suggesting that President Biden, his DOJ and the FBI were prepared to assassinate his predecessor
A new court filing unsealed Tuesday in Trump’s classified documents case found that federal agents were prepared to use “deadly force” in carrying out the raid in 2022. Pictured: Authorities stand 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, now faces criminal charges for mishandling top-secret documents brought to his Florida estate after he left office.
In the former president’s motion to challenge the legality of the FBI raid, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, the filing notes an “Operation Order” prepared for discovery that contained a “statement of policy” regarding “use of deadly force.” ‘
The filing states that the order states “for example, ‘Department of Justice law enforcement officers may use deadly force if necessary…’
It also states that “the officers intended to take a ‘Standard Issue Weapon.'[s]“Ammunition,” “Handcuffs,” and “medium and large bolt cutters,” but they were ordered to wear “unmarked polo or collared shirts” and “keep law enforcement equipment concealed.”
The officers began the raid on August 8, 2022 around 9:00 am and stayed until approximately 6:40 pm.
Trump’s legal team has previously argued that the Mar-a-Lago raid was unconstitutional.
The ex-president pleaded not guilty to 37 charges in the case, some of which carry a prison sentence of up to 20 years.
Trump is accused of hiring aides and lawyers to help him hide the documents officials requested from him.
Unsealed documents also revealed Tuesday 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 in March 2023, in which she found that prosecutors had presented sufficient evidence that Trump had mishandled classified documents.
The opinion states that even after the November 2022 raid, additional confidential documents were discovered in a rented storage space, in the Mar-a-Lago office in December 2022 and “apparently some time afterward in the former president’s own bedroom in Mar’. -a-Lago.’
The judge further wrote, “Specifically, no excuse is given for how the former president could have missed the confidentially marked documents he found in his own bedroom at Mar-a-Lago.”
Earlier this month, Trump-appointed District Judge Aileen Cannon postponed the secret documents trial indefinitely.
She mentioned a number of outstanding pre-trial issues that need to be resolved.