Former President Donald Trump’s campaign sought to gin up sympathy, and donations, for his 2024 presidential bid by suggesting FBI agents who raided his Mar-a-Lago estate were prepared to kill him—exaggerating standard language used in search warrant instructions despite investigators reportedly taking steps to avoid conflict in the August 2022 raid.

The Biden administration authorized the use of deadly force during the FBI’s raid on former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida in August 2022 as part of its investigation into classified records, court documents revealed.

The jarring language accompanying the unprecedented raid drew harsh responses from the Trump campaign, but Fox News learned that the same language also accompanied a search warrant for President Biden’s Delaware home. Both searches were for classified documents.

A purportedly never-before-seen Department of Defense memo from the Obama era appears to indicate the federal government already may have had original copies of the documents seized at former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida in 2022, raising serious questions about the pretext for the raid, Fox News Digital has exclusively learned.

As the Manhattan hush money case against Donald Trump nears its conclusion, a new phase of pretrial activity begins Wednesday in the federal classified documents prosecution the former president is facing in Florida.

The FBI brought props to its raid of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago for classified documents that were pictured in an infamous photo taken at the alleged crime scene, according to court documents.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan opened an investigation on Monday night into special counsel Jack Smith's handling of former President Donald Trump's classified documents case after an admission that some of the evidence was altered or manipulated.

Former President Donald Trump said Thursday that he did not order a Mar-a-Lago staffer to delete security video at the center of an investigation into whether he mishandled classified documents.

"That's false," Trump told "Meet the Press" moderator Kristen Welker.

Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos de Oliveira pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges stemming from Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into former President Trump’s alleged improper retention of classified records.

De Oliveira pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges that came as part of a superseding indictment last month.

De Oliveira faced two obstruction counts based on allegations that the defendants "attempted to delete surveillance video footage at The Mar-a-Lago Club in summer 2022."

Former President Trump and his longtime aide, Walt Nauta, pleaded not guilty Thursday to additional charges in the classified documents case, according to multiple reports.

Driving the news: Special counsel Jack Smith brought additional charges against Trump in a superseding indictment last month, alleging that he sought to delete video footage at Mar-a-Lago in an attempt to obstruct the federal probe.

Trump pleaded not guilty in court papers last week on the new charges, but the magistrate judge formally accepted his plea on Thursday.

The judge in former U.S. President Donald Trump's upcoming trial over his handling of classified documents made two key errors in a June trial, one of which violated a fundamental constitutional right of the defendant and could have invalidated the proceedings, according to legal experts and a court transcript.