Former President Donald Trump called for the removal of President Joe Biden under the 25th Amendment after reports that federal agents who executed a raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in August 2022 were prepared to use “deadly force” if needed.
Trump wrote in a post to Truth Social on Tuesday afternoon that after leaving the courtroom in his criminal hush money trial in Manhattan, 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.”
Guidelines for the raid, which led to the seizure of hundreds of classified documents and eventually criminal charges against Trump, were portrayed in a court filing unsealed on Tuesday, which read in part that officers “of the Department of Justice may use deadly force when necessary.”
“NOW WE KNOW, FOR SURE, THAT JOE BIDEN IS A SERIOUS THREAT TO DEMOCRACY,” Trump added. “HE IS MENTALLY UNFIT TO HOLD OFFICE—25TH AMENDMENT!”