Federal agents ransacked Trump's Florida home, even going through his wife Melania's wardrobes, in a bid to find classified records Trump allegedly took from the White House.

Trump supporters assert that the boxes recovered during the raid contain files that were already declassified by the time Trump left office.

The raid was carried out after an FBI informant had infiltrated Mar-a-Lago and discovered the precise location of where the files were being kept.

Despite widespread anger at the raid from both Trump supporters and Republicans in general, one former FBI agent tried to language police by insisting that the raid, timed for when the feds knew Trump wouldn't be home, was not in fact a raid.

"Agents, by the way, don't like the word raid, they don't like it," former FBI Assistant Director Frank Figliuzzi told MSNBC.

"It sounds like it's some kind of, you know, extra judicial non legal thing. It's the execution of a search warrant. It's a court authorized search warrant," he added.