We’ve shown how WorldNetDaily has embraced a new set of conspiracy theories about the FBI raid on Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago compound to retrieve classified documents he was not supposed to have. Notorious Trump-fluffer Wayne Allyn Root climbed aboard that same conspiracy bandwagon in his May 24 WND column:
Where are the calls for the immediate resignation of FBI Chief Christopher Wray and Justice Department Chief/Attorney General Merrick Garland?
I woke up this morning expecting to see headlines announcing either the resignations of this country’s top law enforcement officers or, at the very least, the entire GOP House and Senate standing on the U.S. Capitol Building steps demanding their resignation.
Yet so far, all I hear is crickets.
But didn’t we just find out that the FBI authorized the use of “deadly force” in their raid of President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home? An FBI SWAT team was actually prepared to confront Trump. Don’t take my word for it.
The warrant actually says FBI agents conducting the raid must be prepared “to engage with FPOTUS (former President of United States) and his Secret Service security team.”
This administration green-lighted a “deadly force” raid against the former president and his Secret Service detail. They were looking for a shootout, FBI vs. Secret Service.
This isn’t America anymore.
This isn’t some rumor. It’s disclosed in federal court documents. We now know the contents of the search warrant. Where is the outrage?
As we documented, the “deadly force” reference is a standard clause in any such operation that’s also in the FBI’s justice manual, and it’s more a reminder that the use of deadly force is limited rather than a blanket authorization. But Root refuses to accept the truth:
I already know the excuses. The Biden administration will claim these words about “deadly force” are boilerplate – present in all search warrants.
That dog won’t hunt.
First, the FBI SWAT team showed up at Mar-a-Lago with heavy weapons. They were clearly ready for a shootout at the former president’s home. So, their weapons and attitude matched the words in the warrant. They clearly represented a grave threat to Trump, his family and staff. Someone could have been killed.
Were they hoping for a confrontation with President Trump?
Was the DOJ/FBI looking for justification to shoot Trump dead?
Were they spoiling for a shootout with Trump’s Secret Service detail?
Did they want a shootout so they could paint Trump and all his MAGA supporters as violent, extreme “domestic terrorists”?
Were they spoiling for a Ruby Ridge, or David Koresh/Waco siege confrontation?
This isn’t a far-fetched fantasy. We already know the DOJ/FBI set up a major entrapment to induce Jan. 6 peaceful Trump protesters to fight back, be arrested in SWAT raids, face “cruel and unusual punishment” for years in prison without trial and be painted as “domestic terrorists.”
If you don’t believe me, ask my friend Jake Lang, who just spent his fourth birthday behind bars without trial, and most of that time, tortured in solitary confinement.
In fact, Lang engaged in a violent confrontation with law enforcement and remains in prison because he assaulted police officers. Root offered no proof that Lang has faced “torture.”
Again not a person to let the facts get in the way of a good right-wing rant, Root concluded his column by going Godwin:
It’s just not possible, or acceptable in America, that any president and his DOJ/FBI could, or would, order a raid with “deadly force” on the home of his political opponent, who is leading in the polls, and who was the most recent president of the United States.
But I don’t see the nation burning today. Do you?
I guess Republicans and conservatives aren’t so violent after all. I guess we’re not “domestic terrorists.” I guess despite all our guns, we’re not starting a civil war.
But …
If our GOP congressional leaders are not standing on the steps of the Capitol Building soon, demanding the immediate resignation of everyone involved in this fiasco, including FBI Chief Christopher Wray and AG Merrick Garland, then our republic has indeed fallen.
And we are in fact living in 1930s Nazi Germany.
No, we’re not. Root should stop lying to his readers.