Conservative lawyer George Conway weighed in on former President Trump’s recent false claims that the FBI was prepared to kill him when they searched Mar-a-Lago in 2022 for classified documents, criticizing Trump for his “moral depravity.”
Conway, speaking to CNN’s Kaitlan Collins about Trump’s controversial fundraising email, said the accusation against a government agency was “absolutely obscene.”
“The notion that so many people had to participate in sending this email and are… indebted to Trump [and] are doing these things, it just shows the level of moral depravity that… Trump has emanated and that surrounds him,” he said friday. “Words cannot describe the level of…depravity to send…this message.”
In his email on Wednesday, Trump claimed that President Biden was “locked and loaded and ready to get me out” — distorting the release language of documents prepared as authorities prepared to search his Palm Beach, Florida, residence. .
In reality, FBI language only allows for the use of deadly force “when necessary,” such as when someone poses an “imminent danger of death” to an officer or another person.
The FBI said it followed standard protocol in the search, as it does with all searches. The agency confirmed that the same policy used in the Mar-a-Lago investigation of Trump was also employed when they searched Biden’s Delaware office and residence because it is “standard practice for all FBI operations orders.”
The search was also intentionally conducted when Trump and his family were not home, according to prosecutors.
Following his allegations, Special Counsel Jack Smith appealed to Judge Aileen Cannon, who is overseeing the case, to stop Trump from speaking about the case in a way that could endanger authorities.
Conway, while holding her cellphone showing Trump’s email, repeated Smith’s calls for a gag order.
“He’s basically accusing the government of trying to take him away,” he said Friday. “And, you know, 10 million people get this email, I don’t know how many people get this email, all it takes is one or two of them to shoot someone thinking, ‘Hey, I think the government is trying to shoot my president, I’m going to fight back’ and…it’s absolutely terrible.”
Conway praised Smith’s request, arguing that it finally put Cannon in a difficult situation.
The Trump-appointed judge indefinitely postponed the trial earlier this month, pushing back some trial dates until late July and refusing to set a trial date. Cannon said he needed to resolve some issues before trial, but the ruling was widely seen as a favor to Trump team’s requests to prolong the case after the election.
“Do you think she would do anything? I don’t know,” Conway added on Friday. “But she… better because this is just… completely outrageous,” Conway said. “I mean, it’s really an attempt to incite violence against government agents based on complete pathological lying and misreading.”
The former president faces 40 counts of mishandling classified documents and obstructing the government’s recovery of records after leaving the White House. He pleaded not guilty to the charges.
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