Attorney General Merrick Garland on Tuesday denied former President Trump’s claim that the FBI had authorized the assassination, noting that the language the former president highlighted was also included in the search warrant for President Biden’s home.
The use-of-force policy, which Trump denounced as a license to “take me out,” is something that is “routinely included in search warrant packages,” Garland said.
The statement Trump pointed to authorizes the use of lethal force “only when necessary,” such as when someone “poses imminent danger of death or serious bodily injury to the officer or another person.”
“The document being discussed is our standard use of force protocol, which sets out the limitations on the use of force, and is typically included in search warrant packages and was included in the package for the search of President Biden’s home,” Garland said during a review of the classified documents.
Yet Trump repeatedly claimed that both the Justice Department and President Biden were “authorized to shoot” him, and he used the use of force policy to raise funds.
Garland directly addressed the allegations, saying, “That allegation is not true.”
In his opening remarks, Garland implicitly criticised Trump’s claims, saying they were “spreading unfounded and deeply dangerous falsehoods about the FBI’s law enforcement activities.”
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