Mar-A-Lago Raid Included Authorization to Kill

The Mar-A-Lago FBI Raid approved by U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland included authorization to use lethal force, which is standard for all FBI Raids. However, the raid need not have happened in the first place, as it didn’t for Joe Biden, who was given much deferential treatment when the FBI sought to gather his allegedly mishandled top-secret documents.

The agents had instructions to check each room for unaccountable occupants, increasing the risk of an unintended incident at a former President’s residence. The optics of the potential for this raid to go wrong had no effect on the DOJ who could have collected the requested documents without ordering a surprise raid (save to the media who were tipped in advance to assure the event were caught on camera).

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Excerpt from thefederalist.com

The FBI was authorized to use “deadly force” against former President Donald Trump when the Biden administration agency raided Mar-a-Lago in search of classified documents, according to newly unsealed court documents shared on X by independent journalist Julie Kelly.

Attorney General Merrick Garland personally approved the unprecedented raid on Trump’s Florida home in the summer of 2022, after which special counsel Jack Smith indicted Trump for allegedly mishandling classified documents. Notably, President Joe Biden also retained classified documents following his tenure as vice president but was not charged by his own Justice Department because prosecutors said he would likely “present himself to the jury, as he did during our interview with him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”

A newly unsealed operations order reveals the FBI was authorized to use deadly force against the former president if need be, Kelly reported.

“According to an ‘Operations Order’ produced in discovery, the FBI believed its objective for the Mar-a-Lago raid was to seize ‘classified information, NDI [national defense information], and US Government records as described in [the] search warrant,’” the filing by Trump’s legal team states.