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FBI was 'prepared to use deadly force' in Trump raid: Explosive new details in the Mar-a-Lago classified files probe are revealed... including where more documents were found
A new court filing unsealed on Tuesday in the Trump classified documents case revealed federal agents were prepared to use 'deadly force' when executing a raid at Mar-a-Lago in 2022.
That raid on the ex-president's home ended with the FBI seizing hundreds of documents containing classified information.
Trump, 77, is now criminally charged for mishandling top secret documents taken to his Florida estate after he left office.
In the former president's motion challenging the legality of the FBI's raid filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, the filing notes an 'Operation Order' produced in discovery which contained a 'Policy Statement' regarding 'Use of Deadly Force.'
The filing says the Order states 'for example, "Law enforcement officers with the Department of Justice may use deadly force when necessary..."'
A photo included in court filings submitted by the Justice Department on August 30, 2022 which shows a collection of documents with markings seized in the FBI raid on August 8, 2022 at Mar-a-Lago
It also says 'the agents planned to bring "Standard Issue Weapon[s]," "Ammo," "Handcuffs," and "medium and large sized bolt cutters," but they were instructed to wear "unmarked polo or collared shirts" and to keep "law enforcement equipment concealed.'"
The agents started the raid around 9am on August 8, 2022 and stayed until around 6:40pm.
Trump's legal team argued that the raid of Mar-a-Lago was unconstitutional.
On Tuesday evening, Trump posted on Truth Social after leaving criminal court in New York he 'was shown Reports that Crooked Joe Biden’s DOJ, in their Illegal and UnConstitutional Raid of Mar-a-Lago, AUTHORIZED THE FBI TO USE DEADLY (LETHAL) FORCE.'
He also sent out a fundraising email with the subject line 'They were authorized to shoot me!'
The ex-president pleaded not guilty to 37 criminal charges in the case, some of which carry a penalty of up to 20 years in prison.
Trump is accused of enlisting aides and lawyers to help him hide the records officials requested he return.
Former President Trump speaking in the Manhattan criminal court on May 21, 2024. He is charged in a separate case for mishandling classified documents after leaving the White House
Documents in Mar-a-Lago got moved from the building's business center to a bathroom and shower in the Lake Room, according to the federal indictment against Donald Trump
FBI agents raided Mar-a-Lago, Trump's Palm Beach estate, in August 2022
Unsealed documents on Tuesday also revealed that Trump's lawyers found additional classified documents in the ex-president's bedroom months after the August raid.
The revelation was detailed in an unsealed opinion from Judge Beryl Howell from March 2023 where she found prosecutors brought sufficient evidence that Trump mishandled classified documents.
The opinion states that even after the raid, more classified-marked documents were uncovered in November 0222 in a leased storage unit, in the office at Mar-a-Lago in December 2022 and 'apparently sometime thereafter in the former president's own bedroom at Mar-a-Lago.'
The judge wrote further down 'Notably, no excuse is provided as to how the former president could miss the classified-marked documents found in his own bedroom at Mar-a-Lago.'
Earlier this month, Trump-appointed District Judge Aileen Cannon postponed the classified documents trial indefinitely.
She cited a number of outstanding pre-trial issues to be resolved.