Trump repeats FBI 'deadly force' claim as Jack Smith scrambles to get gag order
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Trump repeats FBI 'deadly force' claim as Jack Smith scrambles to get gag order

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Donald Trump’s campaign doubled down on claims that FBI agents were cleared to use “deadly force” against him as they searched Mar-a-Lago for classified documents — as special prosecutor Jack Smith scrambled to get a gag order to silence the discredited statement. In a fundraising email sent late Sunday, the GOP’s expected nominee re-shared a misquoted section of FBI policy that has been blasted as false by several experts — including Attorney General Merrick Garland who called Trump using it as "dangerous." Trump’s claim is based on an FBI policy that, “When necessary, that is, when the officer has a reasonable belief that the subject of such force poses an imminent danger of death or serious physical injury to the officer or to another person.” The statement is standard procedure when FBI agents execute searches. On Friday, Smith asked for an order limiting what Trump can say about the raid, claiming that claims of what some Trump supporters have called an “assassination” attempt are dangerous.

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