Former President Donald Trump intensified his bashing of the FBI on social media over the weekend with his own comments and those of QAnon followers calling the bureau a criminal enterprise, corrupt, seditious and abusive .

Trump, in likely the ugliest public attack on federal law enforcers by any president or former president in American history, launched a fresh tirade on his Truth Social platform late Saturday into Sunday to blast the FBIs search last week of his Mar-a-Lago resort to collect boxes of White House documents that should have been surrendered to the National Archives when he left office.

Trump insisted that the FBI has a long and unrelenting history of being corrupt. He also called the search a sneak attack on democracy , and referred in a post to great simmering anger over the action, which he characterized as a break in .