Biden admin authorized 'Use of Deadly Force' at Mar-a-Lago

FBI responds to Trump claim about Mar-a-Lago search
www.axios.com

... The FBI in a statement on Tuesday said that their search at former President Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence followed standard protocol, which "includes a standard policy statement limiting the use of deadly force."

Why it matters: The statement was a response to a Truth Social post from Trump earlier in the day that inflamed his conservative allies and included misleading claims about President Biden's Justice Department.

- - -"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 the Tuesday statement, according to multiple reports.

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

Zoom in: Trump posted on his Truth Social account on Tuesday that Biden's Justice Department "authorized the FBI to use deadly (lethal) force."

- - - Trump's allies seized on his post, with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) falsely claiming that the DOJ and FBI were "planning to assassinate Pres. Trump and gave the green light." ...

@#15 ... Trump's allies seized on his post, with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) falsely claiming ...

So....

What else is new?

Trump allies "falsely claiming?"

That's a new thing?

Back The Blue.
#14 | POSTED BY SNOOFY

They differentiate between fed blue and local blue. Especially under a Dem administration, they do NOT support the fed blue.

They differentiate

"We're gonna need some more FBI guys I guess."

Of course, gravy is stupid enough to be taken in by this.

They wanted to be able to shoot anyone who witnessed them sniffing Melanie's panties as they ransacked her wardrobe.

@#20 ... They wanted to be able to shoot anyone who witnessed them sniffing Melanie's panties as they ransacked her wardrobe. ...

Really?

That's the best your current alias has got here?

Let me phrase that differently....

Why does your current alias seem to strive to attain the appellation of "Troll" that some on this most august site seem to ascribe to it?

"This is the part where Deplorables forget to say:
Back The Blue.
#14 | POSTED BY SNOOFY"

This is not 'the Blue' - this is Biden's SS or Brown Shirts.

Fun tune...

Edelweiss - Bring Me Edelweiss (Tourist Version) (1988)
www.youtube.com

genius.com

...
So when you really love me
Darling bring me Edelweiss
So when you really love me
You should bring me Edelweiss

Freibier! Oh yeah!
Freibier! Oh yeah!
That's the way we like it!

So when you really love me
Darling bring me Edelweiss
So when you really love me
You should bring me Edelweiss

Woman
I need some Austrian loving
I know what it means
I better start climbing
For the dopest flower on the top of the
Mountain

I know what you want
They don't grow the ground
Hiking up North like Cooly C
You see eye to eye
We're picking the one and only flower that shows love
As you look into my eyes
So we can show it with Edelweiss
...

Alpine yodeling in a rock song? I'd never heard that before.

Wow. Kudos to Edelweiss for this.

@#22 ... This is not 'the Blue' - this is Biden's SS or Brown Shirts. ...

Please substantiate that assertion.

thx.

"#24 | POSTED BY LAMPLIGHTER"

These are not police - this is the FBI, which Biden has turned into political organization used to hunt down and prosecute his enemies. No different than how Hoover used it - no different than how Hitler used the SS or Stalin the NKVD. Far past time to defund and end the FBI as it has been continually abused.

@#25 ... These are not police - this is the FBI, which Biden has turned into political organization used to hunt down and prosecute his enemies. ...

Yeah, your current alias is gonna need to provide a whole lot more substation for that assertion.

It is easy to say things.

It is more difficult to back up what is said.

So...

... this is the FBI, which Biden has turned into political organization used to hunt down and prosecute his enemies. ...

Got links?

Or is your current alias' comment just venting analpore gases?

Step up or step out...

"It is more difficult to back up what is said.
#26 | POSTED BY LAMPLIGHTER"

Providing links for something that is self-evident is a waste of my time, though I get how it would probably benefit a ------ like you.

"#26 | POSTED BY LAMPLIGHTER"

By the way, don't run away from the Chinese property thread just because my link just shut down all you --------.

@#27 ... Providing links for something that is self-evident is a waste of my time ...

Quite the contrary.

Providing such links should be quite easy.

So the question becomes, why is your current alias so afraid of proving such links?

@#28 ... By the way, don't run away from the Chinese property thread just because my link just shut down all you --------. ...

Huh?

if your current has an issue with something I post on a thread, please respond to my post on that thread.

imo, your current alias seems to be losing it.

" Really?

That's the best your current alias has got here?

Let me phrase that differently....

Why does your current alias seem to strive to attain the appellation of "Troll" that some on this most august site seem to ascribe to it?

#21 | POSTED BY LAMPLIGHTER AT 2024-05-22 12:45 AM | FLAG: "

Lighten up, It was a joke.

@#31 ... Lighten up, It was a joke. ...

With the comments a current group of aliases seems to upchuck upon this most august site, sometimes ascertaining whether one particular comment is a joke or not has become difficult.

If someone shoots at the FBI, the FBI shoots back.

End of story.

And like cops, FBI agents are trained to "shoot to kill," not wound. AKA "deadly force."

"Biden has turned into political organization used to hunt down and prosecute his enemies."

If that's true, you should be able to point to at least one of Trump's remaining indictments you or I could do without fear of legal repercussions.

Go ahead, I'll wait.

"Biden admin authorized 'Use of Deadly Force' at Mar-a-Lago"

LOL ~ Against whom? The Secret Service? ~ LOL

Trump allies "falsely claiming?"
That's a new thing?
#16 | POSTED BY LAMPLIGHTER

False claims are a hallmark tradition for republicans.

"If that's true, you should be able to point to at least one of Trump's remaining indictments you or I could do without fear of legal repercussions.
#35 | POSTED BY DANFORTH"

Your logic is faulty. The question should be: what acts are his political friends able to get away with that his enemies are not (selective prosecution)? - and the answer is keeping classified records, which in the case of Pedophile Biden, were documents he had no right to possess EVER, were stored completely unsecured, and were shared with a ghostwriter for one of Pedophile Biden's books that NO ONE buys (according to his latest financial disclosures).

Republicans are dangerous lying idiots

Republicans are the most pathetic little snowflake dumb fkks I have ever seen. Standard operational procedures are a HUGE offense to them. They look deep and hard to find anything - anything that can offend them.

Alpine yodeling in a rock song? I'd never heard that before.
Used to dance to this in the clubs. I know it well! :)

Oh, and creating a headline "Biden admin authorized" is such utter bullshht. I doubt it was "authorized" any more any any other operation is "authorized."

This is the most basic of operations and procedures. They'd have to go out of their way to get a waiver not to use standard procedures.

Did I say right-wingers are morons?

Every warrant served by the FBI includes the review of deadly force protocol as SOP.

Frank Figliuzzi
@FrankFigliuzzi1

14h
Yep, every FBI operations order contains a reminder of FBI deadly force policy. Even for a search warrant. Deadly force is always authorized if the required threat presents itself.

If that's true, you should be able to point to at least one of Trump's remaining indictments you or I could do without fear of legal repercussions.

Ask Reality Winner what it's like to be an ordinary citizen when caught with classified documents.

If anything sh*tler is being given lots of preferential treatment because of who he is.

If he were anyone else he would have been taken into custody the day of the raid and would be sitting awaiting trial in a jail cell.

which Biden has turned into political organization

Post your proof.

So why hasn't Biden ordered the FBI to take sh*tler into custody and lock him up?

Why is the Biden DOJ and FBI allowing sh*tler to remain a free person AFTER being caught violating the terms of his bail in every single case?

Why are the "brown shirts" being so lenient to him?

Lighten up, It was a joke.

#31 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

No. You're the joke. And a boring one.

#1 Why does your current alias continue to assign opinions to me when I merely posted an article and made no comment. Please cite your proof to back up your post.

#4 | POSTED BY GRACIEAMAZED

So you merely post articles you don't believe in and support?

Sorry. It's not plausible deniability. You posted the damn thing. (Merely)

Which meant you wished everyone to know. (Merely)

Go back to the nooner where you are safe to merely post your hateful maga garbage and not need to back any of it up.

" Your logic is faulty. "

My logic is impeccable. If Trump is being treated unfairly, you should be able to point to at least one charge you or I could do without fear of legal repercussions.

Instead of tap dancing, why not just state the truth?

When a warrant is being served, they all come heavy. Nothing special.

Bee Eff Dee.

Of course, under the rules of the game Trumpf's mouthpieces warbled out at that SCOTUS session, Seal Team 6 could've shown up at that beachfront pile in Palm Beach (where lewzers go to live and die) on Biden's orders, deliberately snuffed everyone on site, and Biden would be immune from all negative consequences.

That's the way Trumpf sees it.

When it isn't Trumpf.
.

For those on the right who view this authorization of the use of deadly force as problematic - here is a right leaning source that goes into length explaining that this is routine:

www.nationalreview.com

#50 - nice to know that *some* sanity and reason, at least on the most blatantly obvious, still exists on the right.
And then there were the comments from the right-wingers that followed...

Oh my god.

Bellringer, does it bother you that you are associated with trump and the "gop"?

OK, so now this is utterly insane. Right-wing echo chamber is flat out calling this an assassination attempt on Trump. "Truth" Social is all over it, Bannon is promoting it as an assassination attempt, and of course the right-wing MAGAts (MTG, etc.) are all calling it an assassination attempt.

Holy shht, you right-wingers are fkkkinng NUT cases.

It's standard operating procedure, you bloated drunken manatee.

" Bellringer, does it bother you that you are associated with trump and the "gop"?

#52 | POSTED BY YAV AT 2024-05-22 02:30 PM | REPLY | FLAG:"

No. Because I speak for myself. On this site I know I've made a good argument when it's followed by a litany of DR lefties responding with nothing but personal attacks.

"I speak for myself."

Who were you speaking for when you lied about the FEC concluding Trump had not committed an election violation?

No. Because I speak for myself. On this site I know I've made a good argument when it's followed by a litany of DR lefties responding with nothing but personal attacks.

#55 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

Well known liar thinks he is an independent thinker.

Well, I suppose you are speaking for yourself because you lie so much.

Jeff, seriously, you NEVER make a good argument.

Your arguments are REGULARLY torn apart.

Yet you shamelessly return with the same lies over and over and over and over and over and over and over.

You're a pathetic worm.

And remember jeff, no one here has the least bit of respect for you.

Twoothy is exhibit A.

Sorry jeff but you're simply not a good person. You do not deserve to be taken seriously with anything you post.

You may think I am an -------, I just might be, but I am not a lying piece of ---- like you. People respect me, they don't you.

sorry about that but,

Truth Hurts

FBI Was Prepared to Use deadly force at Mar-a-Lago Raid!!

Use deadly force: BIDEN GREEN-LIT FBI raid to go nuclear on Trump... Of course they did!

Cant Jail him or Bankrupt him.

"It's not fascism ....when we do it."

" FBI Was Prepared to Use deadly force at Mar-a-Lago Raid!!"

You mean just like every other raid?

If there was a difference in protocol, please link to proof.

Did Trump say it was wrong to do that?

So Sir Gracie posted another -------- article:
It must be a day ending in Y.

Did Trump say it was wrong to do that?

Oh he and the other MAGATs are screaming it was an FBI assassination attempt.

Is there ever a time when FBI agents aren't authorized to use deadly force in the performance of their duties when circumstances necessitate it?

More importantly, why do Republicans hate the white-collar cops so much?
Rhetorical question. We know.

Who were you speaking for when you lied about the FEC concluding Trump had not committed an election violation?
#56 | POSTED BY DANFORTH

The bears are repeating.

Come on, JEFFY. You can admit that you were wrong. It's okay.

Swallow it.

Christopher Wray is the current FBI director. Trump appointed Wray to his current position. So, the argument coming from the MAGAts is that Biden convinced the FBI director, who was appointed by Trump, to assassinate Trump.

Let that sink in for a moment, MAGAts.

"Biden convinced the FBI director, who was appointed by Trump, to assassinate Trump."

That's just how Deep the Deep State goes! /sarcasm

Trump has made a virtue out of being a huckster.
Think about the example that sets, as we traverse this age of unprecedented global crisis after unprecedented global crisis.

Every President makes unforced errors.
Trump is running on a platform of making as many as possible.

So Biden told the FBI to assassinate himself when he had them search his residence too?

Do you hyperventilating coozes ever tire of looking like poo flinging howler monkey fools?

This is not 'the Blue' - this is Biden's SS or Brown Shirts.

#22 | POSTED BY CLAUDIO

You can always tell the people whose familiarity with history is from pop culture references.

This guy is such an idiot.

Isn't deadly force always authorized if necessary?

I wouldn't want to be the cop who was told to execute a raid, but to also not use deadly force because the people involved in the raid are considered protected.

Isn't deadly force always authorized if necessary?

Which is why Trump wasn't lying, they were locked and loaded, ready to kill.

I wouldn't want to be the cop who was told to execute a raid, but to also not use deadly force because the people involved in the raid are considered protected.

Which surprisingly doesn't make you wonder about the raid. Imagine raiding a facility with Secret Service agents protecting Trump. They were so concerned they had ambulances in the waiting.

Also its not boiler plate, as many would like you to believe it was edited by Garland DoJ..

So Biden told the FBI to assassinate himself when he had them search his residence too?

They didn't raid his residence. Are you paying attention?

"Biden convinced the FBI director, who was appointed by Trump, to assassinate Trump."

The FBI didn't want to go. They were hesitant and reluctant thought talking would be a better option.

But not to authoritarians, as Snoofy says show of force is a feature not a bug.

#73 posted by IAMRUNT

Orc-loving -------, the smelly------------- was 1200 miles away from Mara Pedo during the search.

Fact Check: Did FBI Plan Donald Trump's 'Assassination?'
www.newsweek.com

... MAGA Donald Trump supporters have rallied behind the former president after he released FBI paperwork, connected to its search of his Mar-a-Lago residence, showing agents were permitted to use "deadly force."

On Tuesday, Trump shared on his social media platform Truth Social the information revealed by an unsealed search warrant in his classified documents case which said that federal agents were prepared to use "deadly force" when executing the raid of his Florida resort.

After the news broke, former Trump strategist Steve Bannon and Trump ally Mike Davis discussed what they called an "assassination" plot by the bureau. ...

There is no evidence that the FBI search of the Mar-a-Lago was part of an "attempted assassination" on Trump.

The story comes from the release of a recent court filing connected to the search of Mar-a-Lago in August 2022. An unsealed search warrant in that case revealed that federal agents were prepared to use "deadly force" when executing the raid of his Florida resort.

An "operations order" of the 9 a.m. raid that was produced in discovery contained a "policy statement" regarding the "use of deadly force," which said in part: "Law enforcement officers of the Department of Justice may use deadly force when necessary."

A contingencies plan was also created in cohesion with the raid, showing that a paramedic should be at the scene in case someone is injured. The name of the nearest local trauma center, complete with an address and a phone number, was included on the same form.

However, the use of deadly force is standard FBI procedure as per the bureau's online resources that state "FBI special agents may use deadly force only when necessary"when the agent has a reasonable belief that the subject of such force poses an imminent danger of death or serious physical injury to the agent or another person.

"If feasible, a verbal warning to submit to the authority of the special agent is given prior to the use of deadly force."

An FBI spokesperson sent Newsweek a statement issued in response to claims about the search warrant that said: "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." ...

Retired FBI Assistant Director Frank Figliuzzi wrote on X in response to the "deadly force" comments "Yep, every FBI operations order contains a reminder of FBI deadly force policy. Even for a search warrant. Deadly force is always authorized if the required threat presents itself."

As noted in a recent report by Axios, former FBI Assistant Director in Charge Steven D'Antuono told Congress last year that the Secret Service interacted with the FBI to make sure it could get into Mar-a-Lago "with no issues," saying "it wasn't even a show of force."

Newsweek has contacted a representative for Steve Bannon via email for comment. ...

False.

There was no "assassination attempt" on Donald Trump by the FBI. The use of "deadly force" as contained in now unsealed search warrant documents is boiler-plate procedural text used by the bureau. ...