'Authorized to assassinate': Giuliani leaps to share new debunked Trump conspiracy theory
Rudy Giuliani, a former federal prosecutor and mayor of New York City, shared a swiftly debunked conspiracy theory Tuesday that holds routine language in a new court filing shows President Joe Biden was plotting to assassinate former President Donald Trump.
Giuliani took to X late Tuesday night to echo a claim first made by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene that newly revealed language in Trump's Mar-a-Lago search warrant regarding the use of deadly force.
"Newly released documents in relation to the Mar-a-Lago raid show that armed FBI agents were prepared to confront President Trump and engage with the Secret Service w/ deadly force," Giuliani wrote. "In other words, they were authorized to assassinate the 45th president... Sick."
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Earlier in the evening, Greene claimed she "knew" of an assassination plot orchestrated by Biden's Federal Bureau of Investigation and Justice department and warned the former president.
"The Biden DOJ and FBI were planning to assassinate Pres Trump and gave the green light," Greene wrote. "I made sure that he knew."
Former FBI assistant director was among several officials to immediately and publicly fact check the claim.
"Every FBI operations order contains a reminder of FBI deadly force policy. Even for a search warrant," wrote Frank Figliuzzi. "Deadly force is always authorized if the required threat presents itself."
The document in question relates to the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago in 2022, during which Trump was in New Jersey, as was noted by a former member of Congress.
This did not stop Giuliani's followers from responding to Giuliani's alarming message with fearful warnings about a Biden "dictatorship."
Interestingly, these fears were raised as Trump faced criticism over a campaign video that featured the words "Unified Reich."
The Biden campaign contends Trump's messaging, which his campaign claimed was the result of a staffer's mistake, was "echoing Nazi Germany."
Trump's attorneys have has also argued in court filings to the Supreme Court that presidential immunity allows U.S. presidents to kill political rivals.