Trump revives false claim that Biden authorized ‘deadly force’ for Mar-a-Lago search

Claim rests on a misquoted section of FBI policy in a legal motion, and moreover, Trump was not in Florida during search

Donald Trump's campaign has issued another extraordinary fundraising request to supporters by doubling down on a false claim that rival Joe Biden was prepared to hurt or kill him by authorizing the use of deadly force during an FBI search for classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago compound in August 2022.

The claim has become a currency among some Trump supporters and is widely described by them as an attempted assassination" - but rests on a misquoted section of FBI policy in a legal motion. Moreover, Trump was not even in Florida during the search.