'Dangerous' and 'false': AG shatters Trump deadly force conspiracy theory with single fact
Attorney General Merrick Garland Thursday shattered former President Donald Trump's newest witch hunt conspiracy theory by sharing with reporters a single fact.
Garland delivered this check alongside a public condemnation of Trump's recent fundraising email that claimed President Joe Biden was ready to assassinate him when the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago for classified documents in 2022.
"That allegation is false and it is extremely dangerous," Garland said.
The conspiracy theory — which originates with a problematic right-wing writer and shared by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani — contends language limiting the use of "deadly force" proves plans to use deadly force against the former president.
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On Thursday, Garland explained the language is frequent, common and advised by the FBI.
"The document that is being referred to in the allegation is the Justice Department standard policy limiting the use of force, as the FBI advises," he said. "It is part of the standard operations plan for searches."
It was then Garland pointed to another document he says clears Biden of a nefarious plot to weaponize the Justice Department and the FBI against his chief political opponent in the upcoming presidential race.
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"It was even used in the consensual search of President Biden's home," Garland said.
This interpretation of the document — newly unsealed in Trump's ongoing classified documents case in Florida federal court — stands in stark contrast to that Trump shared with his followers in a fundraising email this week.
"Joe Biden was locked & loaded ready to take me out & put my family in danger," Trump said.
The campaign email headline, in all caps, read: "Biden's DOJ was authorized to shoot me!"