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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNo, Biden Did Not Order the FBI to Assassinate Trump at Mar-a-Lago
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Donald Trumps attorneys recently argued in court that the former president should be shielded from all criminal prosecution even if they order the assassination of a political opponent. While no president has yet to test that bold legal theory, Trump and his MAGA allies are now baselessly attempting to accuse Joe Biden of authorizing the assassination of Trump during the FBIs 2022 raid of Mar-a-Lago.
Documents unsealed Tuesday revealed that more classified material was found at the former presidents Palm Beach estate after the FBIs August 2022 raid. Republicans, however, have zeroed in on standard language in FBI search warrants authorizing the use of deadly force in appropriate circumstances, claiming Biden and the DOJ wanted Trump dead even though he wasnt even present on the property that day.
WOW! I just came out of the Biden Witch Hunt Trial in Manhattan, the Icebox, and was shown Reports that Crooked Joe Bidens DOJ, in their Illegal and UnConstitutional Raid of Mar-a-Lago, AUTHORIZED THE FBI TO USE DEADLY (LETHAL) FORCE, Trump wrote Tuesday of the FBIs boilerplate authorization to use deadly force. NOW WE KNOW, FOR SURE, THAT JOE BIDEN IS A SERIOUS THREAT TO DEMOCRACY. HE IS MENTALLY UNFIT TO HOLD OFFICE 25TH AMENDMENT!
In a campaign fundraising email, Trump further claimed that he nearly escaped death and that Biden was locked & loaded ready to take me out.
*snip*
Pure insanity
Initech
(100,384 posts)Like anyone who believes this crap should get the straight jacket and padded cell treatment.
underpants
(183,591 posts)We all know this and the "Unified Reich" thing is goading on his outer cult elements
They only need one to act and they become the new standard to show their true devotion. Think Ashli Babbitt or the guy living in the van with pipe bombs. The van guy has been forgotten at least in media we see but Ashli is almost a God to them.
Initech
(100,384 posts)It's definitely a "wink wink nudge nudge" dogwhistle aimed to stir up his most fanatical supporters into doing something horrible.
wnylib
(22,233 posts)attempting to assassinate Biden, or more likely, other Dem leaders since Biden's security is so tight
But, statements like this one also indicate a warning to the rest of us that MAGA leaders are willing to take power by force and are psyching up their followers for the need to do it.
underpants
(183,591 posts)It looks like fealty but some % or individual are just doing it out of fear. Lots of them are quitting. Romney is paying $5,000 a day for security for him and his family.
malaise
(270,656 posts)MAD
That is all
rsdsharp
(9,329 posts)Have the good grace to be dead, asshole.
NBachers
(17,319 posts)peggysue2
(10,948 posts)He wasn't even at Mar-a-Lago during the search. This is just another round of trying to incense the MAGA troops and get them to donate money.
What a poor excuse for a human being!
wnylib
(22,233 posts)trying to get them incensed enough to believe that a violent overthrow of government will be necessary if Trump does not win in November.
Combined with promises to pardon and release J6 insurrectionists, this is meant to overcome any fear of taking violent action again this year.
Unfortunately, that too. Although money drives Trump like crack. Along with power and the need to dominate others.
I do agree that all of this blathering and propaganda is to make Trump appear inevitable so that any loss in November is 'proof' of a stolen election.
We're in for some mighty rough waters, even as we push Trump and the MAGA crowd into the Deep Blue Sea.
Without life preservers.
thucythucy
(8,250 posts)Aren't they arguing that the president has a right to do tbis?
brooklynite
(95,564 posts)MorbidButterflyTat
(1,958 posts)IF Prez Biden and the FBI or DOJ or whoever were green lighted to assassinate that POS criminal, he'd be dead.
Srkdqltr
(6,564 posts)Biden is professional not a thug.
MorbidButterflyTat
(1,958 posts)JFC these idiots believe anything.
Attilatheblond
(2,496 posts)during the years Trump was in the WH, supplying info Putin wanted.
edited cuz I hit post before doing a spell check.
Bucky
(54,252 posts)jaxexpat
(7,055 posts)You see, the new and improved USSC only considers the patent outrage of immunity when the actor is a Republican. Democrats have reverse immunity in that they are certifiably guilty and subject to punishment for things they don't, didn't, couldn't or wouldn't do. For the lesser crimes of being falsely accused while publicly pilloried for shameless acts that never happened, Democrats are publicly pilloried. In order to maintain the balance and harmonious brilliance of our legal system, the DOJ has pretty much surrendered to insanity, entirely. Though hearings on the matter of this surrender have been scheduled for years, there has simply been no good time to actually hear them, what with the various objections and all. Concerned citizens could appeal this delay if they would be patient and wait, maybe, forever, certainly, 'til it's too late.
KS Toronado
(17,854 posts)Thomas & Alito said he's got absolute immunity being President.
Mr.Bill
(24,438 posts)Torchlight
(3,653 posts)is this week's reason to ignore trump's defeats and consistent humiliation in court everyday and expect anyone with even one-eighth of brain to buy it.
It's got as much weight as their little "standing back and standing by! He-Man bumper stickers they plastered to the inside walls of their limbic cortex (right next to soft-porn swimsuit magazines and gun-calendars)
Turbineguy
(37,558 posts)Harker
(14,286 posts)Trumpsky had best prepare - he's overdue for his appointment in Samarra.
calimary
(81,988 posts)Yes. Im shouting! But maybe somebody who can actually do something will get the message.
I wake up every morning wondering if THIS is finally the day hes stopped, placed in custody, or hauled off to jail. Or AT LEAST somebody PLEASE unplug his mic and take his podium away!!!
Mr. Ected
(9,678 posts)His attorney argued in the Supreme Court that a president has the right to assassinate a political foe. They took a lot of shit for it. This is how they balance it all out with the rubes, by falsely accusing Biden of attempting to assassinate him.
Effing fascists.
jaxexpat
(7,055 posts)would have probably seen the current state of the union such that the executive would need be within the confines of immunity to perform "his duty" to save the country from the clutches of a madman, an express reason (on a painfully short list) wherein executive immunity should ever be employed.
"Alex, what could the executive do if some populist madman was turning the whole of our experiment into a dung heap for reasons only his disturbed mind could surmise?" asked Mr. Madison. "Well, James, he should suffer no prosecution were he to secure, in his time, the future of the country by whatever means, I think", Hamilton replied.*
* actual transcript of a conversation taped before a live audience in the winter of 1786. Found, along with 137 unmatched socks and gloves in my closet yesterday. Quite exciting. Don't you think? Anyone need a one-of-a-kind cuff link? People always ask for "link", could be handy.
republianmushroom
(14,635 posts)It would of been protecting the US, the stolen doc' were classified. Presidential immunity.
Seems Moscow Mage and some others seem to forget that. Would work both ways.
40 months and counting (includes foot dragging)
MorbidButterflyTat
(1,958 posts)What's with this whiney crybaby behavior? I thought he was an "alpha male," a stud, Rambo-like as generated by CGI and AI.
He sounds like a deranged baby demanding his binkie.
B.See
(1,652 posts)The guy who prefers American servicemen who aren't captured?
The guy who whined about a cold courtroom?
The guy who hid out in DER BUNKA for hours during a George Floyd protest?
AllaN01Bear
(19,894 posts)Maeve
(42,398 posts)Sorry, the eyeroll emoji isn't strong enough for this crap anymore
ProfessorGAC
(66,107 posts)If they wanted him dead, he'd be dead!
Plus, when they exercised that warrant, TFG was a thousand miles away.
DFW
(54,881 posts)In my fantasy world, Biden would come out and say, "Trump thinks I would bother to assassinate him?? With so many evil guys around the world who are truly smart enough to plot some serious mayhem, Trump thinks I'm gonna order the killing of some dementia-addled old guy with the emotional makeup of an eight-year-old? I guess Donald Trump thinks I have the FBI and the CIA sitting around playing marbles all day. He would be mistaken in that assumption, but what else is new?"
3catwoman3
(24,331 posts)As mentioned in a post up thread, all FBI search warrants authorize the use of deadly force. Its SOP.
MOMFUDSKI
(6,268 posts)Why the hell not?