Conservative lawyer George Conway spoke out against former President Trump’s recent false claim that the FBI was preparing to kill him when it raided Mar-a-Lago in 2022 for classified documents, criticizing Trump’s “moral decadence.”
Speaking to CNN’s Caitlin Collins about President Trump’s controversial fundraising emails, Conway called the accusations against the government agency “totally obscene.”
“The idea that so many people had to participate in sending this email … is indebted to Trump. [and] “The fact that they’re doing this just shows the level of moral depravity that Trump exudes and that surrounds him.” he said Friday“Words cannot express how depraved it is to send this message.”
In an email on Wednesday, Trump claimed President Biden was “prepared and ready to get rid of me,” twisting disclosure language from documents prepared by law enforcement agencies preparing to search his Palm Beach, Florida, home.
In reality, FBI terminology allows for the use of deadly force only “when necessary,” such as when someone poses an “imminent danger of death” to the officer or someone else.
The FBI said it followed standard procedure in this search, as it does in all its investigations. The BI confirmed that the same policy used in the Mar-a-Lago investigation of President Trump was applied in the search of Biden’s office and residence in Delaware because it is “standard procedure in all FBI investigation orders.”
Prosecutors say the searches were deliberately conducted when Trump and his family were not at home.
Following Trump’s allegations, special counsel Jack Smith asked Judge Eileen Cannon, who is presiding over the case, to block Trump from speaking out about the case in a way that could endanger law enforcement officers.
Conway echoed Smith’s calls for censorship, holding up a cellphone showing Trump’s emails.
“He’s basically accusing the government of trying to take him out,” he said Friday. “And there are 10 million people who got this email — I don’t know how many — and it would be enough for one or two of them to think, ‘Looks like the government is trying to shoot my president. I’m going to shoot back,’ and shoot somebody. It’s just awful.”
Conway praised Smith’s allegations, arguing they finally put Cannon over the edge.
A judge appointed by Trump earlier this month postponed the trial indefinitely, postponed some trial dates until late July and declined to set a trial date. Judge Cannon said some issues needed to be resolved before the trial could begin, but the decision was widely seen as supporting the Trump campaign’s request to extend the trial beyond the election.
“Do I think she’ll do anything? I don’t know,” Conway added Friday. “But she’d better… because this is… absolutely outrageous,” Conway said. “I mean, this is an attempt to incite violence against government officials based entirely on pathological lies and misinformation.”
The former president faces 40 charges since leaving the White House, including mishandling classified documents and obstructing the government’s efforts to recover them. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
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