• Donald Trump's Florida residence, Mar-A-Lago, was searched by the FBI Monday night.
  • FBI Director Christopher Wray who approved the raid, was nominated by Trump.
  • Trump previously said of Wray: "we will have a great FBI director." 

Christopher Wray, the FBI director who greenlighted the search of Mar-a-Lago was picked for the job by then-President Donald Trump in 2017. At the time Trump called him a man of  "impeccable credentials." Today, Wray is facing pressure for the FBI's Monday night actions, which Trump supporters are calling "unprecedented."

The FBI conducted a search of Donald Trump's Palm Beach, Florida home, Mar-A-Lago, searching for 15 boxes of documents that were reportedly taken from the White House when Trump left office.

 

Trump, who was at Trump Tower while the search was conducted, called the FBI search an "authorized raid in my home."

Legal experts told Insider that the FBI likely found "pulverizing" evidence in the former president's residence when searching his home office and even his safe.

Wray's nomination was confirmed by a GOP-led Senate, with votes from Trump allies like Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Marco Rubio of Florida, and Josh Hawley of Missouri.

"We will have a great FBI director. I think he's doing really well and we're very proud of that choice. I think I've done a great service to the country by choosing him," Trump said in a speech while visiting France in 2017. "He will make us all proud, and I think someday we'll see that and hopefully someday soon."

 

However, in 2021 the president tried to oust his own nominee. He backtracked, calling Wray the "worst member of my administration," former New Jersey governor Chris Christie wrote in his book, "Republican Rescue."

"Do you want to know who the worst member of my administration is?" Trump asked Christie, according to the book. "Your guy. Your guy Chris Wray. He's the worst." 

Christie, who served as an advisor to the former president for nearly two decades, said he urged Trump to nominate Wray after James Comey was fired in 2017.

Twitter users have found it ironic that Trump nominated the man who signed off on the raid of his South Florida home.

Keith Edwards, communications director for  Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate, Nikki Reed, tweeted, "Trump has every right to be upset at the person who appointed FBI Director Christopher Wray."

The FBI probe comes after the National Archives requested the DOJ investigate whether or not Trump violated the law by taking government records with him after the end of his presidency.

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