GOP lawmakers conflate standard FBI policies with an assassination attempt on Trump

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: NBC News

May 21, 2024, 10:33 PM EDT


Congressional allies of Donald Trump on Tuesday appeared to misconstrue standard operating procedure at the FBI with what they called an attempt by President Joe Biden's administration to assassinate the former president during a 2022 search of his Mar-a-Lago property for classified documents.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., wrote on X that the Justice Department and the FBI had plans to “assassinate” Trump “and gave the green light.” Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., posted on X that President Joe Biden “ordered the hit on Trump at Mar-a-Lago,” Trump's residence in Palm Beach, Florida.

The posts came shortly after Trump, who was not at Mar-a-Lago on the day of the FBI search, wrote on Truth Social that he had been shown reports indicating “that Crooked Joe Biden’s DOJ, in their Illegal and UnConstitutional Raid of Mar-a-Lago, AUTHORIZED THE FBI TO USE DEADLY (LETHAL) FORCE.” Trump, who has often accused Biden of weaponizing the justice system against him, appeared to be referring to newly unsealed court filings related to documents found at Mar-a-Lago after the FBI search it in 2022.

In a rare statement Tuesday night, the FBI said that it had followed standard procedure during the search of Trump's property and that no additional steps had been ordered. “The FBI followed standard protocol in this search as we do for all search warrants, which includes a standard policy statement limiting the use of deadly force. No one ordered additional steps to be taken and there was no departure from the norm in this matter,” the statement said.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/gop-lawmakers-conflate-fbi-policy-trump-assassination-attempt-rcna153413

[Lovie777]

1. Gaslighting again........................

I fear for Pres Biden and VP Harris. These people are nuts.

[hadEnuf]

26. Can't some charges be brought against lawmakers who peddle this absolute and outrageous shit?

I mean when is enough enough?

[Rebl2]

27. I wish

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Since when is holding a former President

accountable the same as ordering him to be murdered? Figurative language has its limits.

[Irish_Dem]

3. The GOP false accusations are an attempt to bully, threaten and intimidate law enforcement.

To stop them from doing their jobs.
It is gaslighting to protect the GOP criminals.

[underpants]

8. 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.

[Irish_Dem]

11. Yes they are inciting violence against Dem officials.

That has been the GOP goal for quite some time.

[Think. Again.]

4. Does this fall under...

...'Slander' or 'Defamation'?

[tom_kelly]

5. They are preparing and numbing the population for their future plans - n/t

[FSogol]

6. He wasn't even present when the FBI dropped by. Gosar the Gaslighter.

[BumRushDaShow]

10. I think there were even split screens shown on the news that day when it happened

where they showed him walking into a NYC courthouse as reporters were asking him about what was happening in FL.

I.e., he and his kids had been giving depositions that week for the NY civil fraud case (where he had more "fifths" then the local liquor store) -

[keithbvadu2]

7. If not Trump directly executing his 'enemies', he will indirectly encourage his followers to do it.

If not Trump directly executing his 'enemies', he will indirectly encourage his followers to do it.

[SamKnause]

9. They did not conflate anything.

They knew the truth.

They are fucking LIARS !!!!!!

It is really that simple.

The trump cult are incapable of telling the truth.

Repubs have jumped onto the cult wagon and they have always been LIARS.

They are a destructive force against the U.S. and their policies since the 1970's proves this.

[Attilatheblond]

14. Rally crowds dwindle and donations shrink as legal expenses and fines pile up, so TFG didn't misconstrue FBI's SOP

He flat out LIED. And he does that hoping some 'lone wolf' will do his dirty work for free and his idiot followers rack up more credit card debt sending him pennies.

He is the losing-est loser and he knows the losing is expanding exponentially. He is alone and desperate. Roy Cohn is dead, as is his cold-hearted dad, no longer there to save the chicken-hawk wanna-bee mobster from his own bad choices. Soon he won't get to wear his badly tailored blue suits and his trademark red tie will become anathema in the halls of governance.

In a few short weeks, he will file a law suit against the NY legal team that took his instructions instead of doing their best legal work, crying that the trial must be thrown out due to legal malpractice. He will hire more lawyers to appeal the case because the judge wouldn't cave. His diaper budget will need to be expanded.

I'm gonna need a lot more popcorn.

[Marthe48]

12. How about this?

It isn't President Biden's Justice Department, or his FBI. So traitor is once again lying his ass off.

However, President Biden is Commander in Chief and one of his many duties is to defend the country against all enemies, foreign and domestic. That part of his job isn't political, although it is lumped in with presidential political action. Politics is pomp, defence is circumstance. Sometimes, circumstances demand action. traitor is a clear and present danger to our country and traitor is lucky that nobody, so far, has sent the military to arrest him for his flagrant actions against the U.S. He is no better than an enemy leader directing troops to storm the defenses. He should be treated like that, just strip the cloak of politics off him and his army and neutralize the danger they pose.

[riversedge]

13. The FBI must have been really concerned since they issued a 'rare' statement.......

..........In a rare statement Tuesday night, the FBI said that it had followed standard procedure during the search of Trump's property and that no additional steps had been ordered. “The FBI followed standard protocol in this search as we do for all search warrants, which includes a standard policy statement limiting the use of deadly force. No one ordered additional steps to be taken and there was no departure from the norm in this matter,” the statement said.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/gop-lawmakers-conflate-fbi-policy-trump-assassination-attempt-rcna153413

[KS Toronado]

15. Wish Biden would hurry up and assassinate The King of Babble-On

Thomas & Alito said he's got absolute immunity being President.

[et tu]

16. get the base riled up

and get the money~

[intheozone]

17. GOP will use this conspiracy story to distract media

away from talking about the 4 classified documents found in TSF's bedroom months after the search.

Edit to correct typo.

[RobinA]

18. Trying To Normalize

the word "assassination," a word that, at least to anyone alive n the 60's, has a bit of a cringe factor attached.

Never would I have thought that I'd ever hear a Presidential candidate accuse a sitting President of an assassination attempt.

[edbermac]

19. Ignoring the fact that Trump was in NYC at the time

Dumb ass fuckers

[CaptainTruth]

20. Maybe they should learn how things work in America?

You know, since they claim to care so much about America, yet they don't know that in America a use of force policy is a standard part of a search warrant.

This has been done thousands of times, for decades, & apparently they're just now finding out?

[Fritz Walter]

21. Talk about a Martyr Complex!

Not only on the part of TSF, but also extending to his followers.

From Wikipedia:

"In psychology a person who has a martyr complex, sometimes associated with the term "victim complex", desires the feeling of being a martyr for their own sake and seeks out suffering or persecution because it either feeds a physical need or a desire to avoid responsibility. In some cases, this results from the belief that the martyr has been singled out for persecution because of exceptional ability or integrity."

And his MAGA followers totally buy into the notion that he's being singled out for exceptional ability or integrity.

Scary!

[Bayard]

22. That's a good description

The MAGAts who are out there now, that weren't arrested after Jan. 6, are the hardcore crazies.

I was at our mailbox yesterday, on our little country road, and some idiot drove by slowly with a big trump flag flying in the bed. I didn't see him till he was already past, but yelled--get off my road, ya f---king moron! And various other expletives, but he didn't come back. Probably just as well.

[Traurigkeit]

23. If President Joe Biden actually ordered such a thing, do you think TSF wouldn't be 6 feet under already in 2023 ?

What a piece of shite this crap that Fred Trump festered

There'd probably a line of volunteers across all the acronyms.

[willamette]

24. Every accusation is a confession

When I remember that with a narcissist, and with this narcissistic cult in particular, every accusation is a confession, this bit of propaganda worries me.

[Ladythatvotesblue]

25. GOP

Lawmakers have a few qualifications,

they must be nuts!
or traitors!
History will not be kind.

[Kennah]

28. Where is a CIA assassination team when ya need it?

[Traurigkeit]

29. or Saudi

[peppertree]

30. And you KNOW Republican big-wigs have been mulling an 'Arthur Bremer' solution

They know Cheeto has become a big, fat orange liability for them - and one they can't sidestep in the least.

So what's a plutocrat to do...

[Kaleva]

31. Calling MTG and Gosar "GOP Lawmakers" is a stretch

They are fringe nut jobs.

[Aussie105]

32. When you look into dark corners

and see assassins who aren't there, but you assert they exist and are FBI agents sent by Biden with the task of terminating your favourite failed dictator, then:

1. You are paranoid.
2. Making stuff up to stir up your crazed followers.

Either way, some people need to seek help.

But it is a bad situation.
If something bad did happen to Trump, be it natural causes or otherwise, the crazies would be out on the streets trying to start a civil war.

[DENVERPOPS]

33. And now,

Fox News has picked this up and is parroting it......

[Martin68]

34. So how did Trump survive this assassination attempt?

[Aussie105]

35. He was just lucky, guess.

He was elsewhere at the time.

The Murder Squad didn't do their homework too well.