Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said this week that the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Justice Department were going to carry out an assassination of former President Donald Trump in 2022.
Greene made the assertions in a post to X after details about the FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago became public.
“The Biden DOJ and FBI were planning to assassinate Pres Trump and gave the green light. Does everyone get it yet???!!!!” Greene wrote, adding, “What are Republicans going to do about it? I tried to oust our Speaker who funded Biden’s DOJ AND FBI, but Democrats stopped it.”
I made sure that he knew.
The Biden DOJ and FBI were planning to assassinate Pres Trump and gave the green light.
Does everyone get it yet???!!!!
What are Republicans going to do about it?
I tried to oust our Speaker who funded Biden’s DOJ AND FBI, but Democrats stopped it. https://t.co/XSTevEQsNI pic.twitter.com/o0lUjcEdix
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) May 21, 2024
Greene’s accusation came with a screenshot of a post Trump made to Truth Social about how the DOJ authorized the FBI to use lethal force in their surprise raid of Trump’s Florida home in 2022 in which they discovered and seized classified materials Trump allegedly brought back to the home after leaving office.
“WOW! I just came out of the Biden Witch Hunt Trial in Manhattan, the “Icebox,” and 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. NOW WE KNOW, FOR SURE, THAT JOE BIDEN IS A SERIOUS THREAT TO DEMOCRACY. HE IS MENTALLY UNFIT TO HOLD OFFICE – 25TH AMENDMENT!” Trump wrote in his post.
The FBI released a statement on Tuesday explaining that its authorization of deadly force was standard protocol and not particularly designed for Trump.
“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 agency said.
This is not the first time Greene would warn about a plot to assassinate Trump. She made a similar claim during an April interview with radio host Alex Jones, telling him that Democrats are planning to have him “murdered” in jail.
“They want President Trump dead. They want to lock him up in jail for the rest of his life, so that he dies in jail, and they want to take away his Secret Service protection so that he is murdered somewhere in jail, possibly. This is how serious they are.”