A new court filing unsealed Tuesday provides a behind-the-scenes look at how federal agents prepared for and executed the raid on Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in August 2022, including "deadly force" being within the mission's guidelines.
The raid led to the search and seizure of hundreds of documents containing classified information, ultimately leading to criminal charges against the Trump. Last June, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee pleaded not guilty to 37 charges associated with his alleged lack of returning classified material after his term in the White House concluded.
Agents at the scene of the raid, who were instructed to wear unmarked polo or collared shirts, had planned to bring "standard issue weapons, ammo, handcuffs and medium and large sized bolt cutters."
Contingencies also said that agents "will be prepared to engage with" Trump and U.S. Secret Service should he have arrived at Mar-a-Lago.
The filing also included Trump's lawyers arguing that the August 8, 2022, raid at Mar-a-Lago was "unconstitutional" and that evidence obtained at the property was an "unlawful violation of President Trump's attorney-client privilege by the Special Counsel's Office."
They called the raid an armed "storming" of a private residence, meant to aid "chief political rival" President Joe Biden while being "personally authorized by Attorney General [Merrick] Garland, and supported over FBI objections by DOJ leadership who did not 'give a damn about the optics' of these unprecedented steps."
And, you wokesters want Americans to believe that MAGA is a threat to democracy?
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T'only good MAGA's a dead MAGA, eh?