U.S. federal agents searched former President Donald Trump's Florida home this week in search of records pertaining to nuclear weapons, a Washington Post report stated.

The article published on Thursday may also cast doubt on Republican lawmakers who blasted a search they claimed was more indicative of a totalitarian regime while awaiting case-specific information.

The report that FBI agents searched Donald Trump's Florida house for nuclear weapons-related sensitive information could aid to explain the urgency of the extraordinary search at the home of an ex-president and intensify his dispute with the Justice Department.

The most recent information further escalates the stakes of an escalating legal dispute when Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday called the former president's bluff and, in an uncommon move, asked a judge to unseal the search warrant and inventory of material found from Trump's house.

A Matter of National Security

Garland's politically fraught action of ordering FBI agents into the home of a former president may have been motivated by the alleged presence of nuclear weapons documents at Mar-a-Lago, as collecting them would be perceived as a national security priority. 

The Post's report's revelations came on yet another unusual day that reenacted the chaos and accusations of Trump's presidency and forged bitter new political rifts in advance of the former President's inevitable bid for the White House.

Federal authorities were reportedly searching Trump's resort for sensitive materials pertaining to nuclear weapons, among other things per the report.

The report cited sources familiar with the case but they didn't go into great detail about the documents or say whether they pertained to nuclear weapons that belonged to the US or to another country, according to CNN..

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The question of why a previous president would require such closely-guarded secrets after leaving office will be raised, however, if it turns out that Trump did take such documents from the White House.

Government officials would be concerned about the probability that such information would be kept in an unprotected location where people come and go and where it might be exposed to intrusion by a foreign intelligence outfit.

Trump Calls Raid 'unAmerican'

The former President declared late on Thursday that he will not object to the disclosure of information pertaining to the "unAmerican, unwarranted, and unnecessary raid and break-in" of his residence. However, Donald Trump did not specifically state which records he would be willing to see made public.

Furthermore, the FBI search was lawfully sanctioned by a warrant signed by a court that would have needed to find probable cause that a crime had been committed. Hence it was not a break-in.

Other media outlets The New York Times, CBS, the Washington Post, CNN, and NBC have requested that the court make all information regarding the FBI search at Mar-a-Lago public.

While in the White House, Trump was particularly fascinated with the US nuclear arsenal and boasted about having access to top-secret intelligence.

According to a report from The Guardian, in the summer of 2017, he allegedly demanded an arsenal 10 times larger than what it was at its peak during the Cold War, which prompted the then-secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, to call him a "moron."

Trump also made a bold threat to destroy Afghanistan and North Korea.

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