Attorney General Merrick Garland on Tuesday rejected former President Trump’s claims that the FBI had the green light to assassinate him, noting that language highlighted by the former president was also included in the search warrant for the president’s home. Biden.
The use of force policy that has been criticized by Trump as permission to “get me out” is something Garland said is “routinely part of the package for search warrants.”
The statement Trump pointed to allows deadly force “only when necessary,” such as when someone “poses an imminent danger of death or serious physical harm to the officer or another person.”
“The document that is being discussed is our standard use of force protocol, which is a limitation on the use of force, which is routinely part of the package for search warrants and was also part of the package for searching President Biden’s home,” During its investigation of classified documents, Garland said.
Even so, Trump raised funds through the use of force policy, claiming at various times that both the Justice Department and even President Biden “were authorized to shoot” him.
Addressing the allegation directly, Garland said “the allegation is not true.”
During his opening remarks, Garland also covertly attacked Trump’s claims, saying that “baseless and extremely dangerous falsehoods are being spread about the FBI’s law enforcement operations.”
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