“The FBI followed standard protocol in this search as we do for all search warrants, which includes a standard policy statement limiting the use of deadly force. No one ordered additional steps to be taken and there was no departure from the norm in this matter,” said the FBI in a Tuesday night statement responding to the fucking freakout from MAGA over standard language included in one of the bureau’s internal planning documents about the August 8, 2022 raid on Mar-a-Lago.

And it is, without a doubt, standard language. A verbatim Google search of the string “Law enforcement officers of the Department of Justice may use deadly force only when necessary, that is, when the officer has a reasonable belief that the subject of such force poses” – seen in the pre-raid “coordinating instructions” document that started this right wing shitshow on Tuesday – returns a number of results long pre-dating the August 2022 raid, like a 1996 FBI field training manual. Then there’s also a 2006 DOJ inspector general report on the shooting death of Puerto Rican separatist Filiberto Ojeda Ríos. Another is a 2021 KFOX article about El Paso, Texas-area ATF agents receiving use of force training. Clearly none of it was anything new or unique to Trump and Mar-a-Lago.

What was specific however was the instruction says agents on scene should coordinate with the Secret Service “and other LE Agencies deemed necessary MAL Security and Staff (execution occurs during off-season date range).” Which should tell you that they knew Trump wasn’t going to be there and they were not “locked and loaded” to “assassinate” him as the lying, histrionic cunts in the MAGA propaganda-industrial complex and the orange-est one of them all have claimed.