Republicans have been furiously working to explain away the unprecedented FBI search of former President Donald Trump s Mar-a-Lago residence in search of classified documents this week.

Theyve expressed no concern over what documents Trump may have had at the resort which is also accessible to the public even though The Washington Post has reported that nuclear secrets may have been among the papers.

Instead, theyve relentlessly criticized the FBI and vowed to investigate the agency as soon as they get the power to do so. In the midst of all this, on Thursday, a man with right-wing ties who appeared to be a prolific poster on Trumps social media site and armed with an AR-15 rifle threatened officials at the FBIs office in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Here are some of the ways that Republicans are trying to brush off any potential wrongdoing by Trump:

FBI Agents Went Rogue