CNN legal analyst Elliot Williams on Tuesday made short work of a new claim made by former President Donald Trump and his allies that President Joe Biden had authorized the FBI to assassinate him when it executed a search warrant as his Mar-a-Lago resort to retrieve top-secret government documents.
While discussing new revelations in the Mar-a-Lago documents case, host Brianna Keilar asked Williams to comment on the fact that the FBI was authored to use "deadly force" if necessary when conducting the search.
"Can you just clear this up for us?" she asked. "People on the right are saying... some of them are going so far as to say this is an assassination attempt. My understanding is that this is pretty standard. What's the deal?"
Williams did not hold back in expressing his contempt for this claim.
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"This is absolute nonsense," he said. "It is standard operating procedure to empower law enforcement to use deadly force, as we've seen in spectacular fashion over the last five years in many of these high-profile cases. Law enforcement's empowered to use deadly force when executing a search warrant. I wouldn't even call it a raid, it's a standard procedure when officers are appearing at a home."
Williams then explained that an authorization to use deadly force isn't a green light to barge into a building with guns blazing but gives law enforcement officials the power to use deadly force if they face legitimate threats to their own lives while conducting their search.
"If someone were, at the time they entered Mar-a-Lago, to be wielding machetes or firearms, of course law enforcement would be empowered to use deadly force!" he said. "The idea that this is somehow an assassination attempt is nonsense, it's absolute nonsense."
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