Former US president Donald Trump (Image: AAP/AP/Evan Vucci)
Former US president Donald Trump (Image: AP/Evan Vucci)

Sources close to the FBI’s controversial search of former US president Donald Trump’s Florida home have confirmed the bureau was “appalled, but not surprised” by the type of material it discovered in the Mar-a-Lago safe.

The admission follows the leaking of FBI internal briefing documents about the search to the media.

At this stage, it remains unclear whether the searchers found the “smoking gun” they were looking for. However, as one anonymous FBI source put it: “We found a whole bunch of other weird shit in the safe. Stuff that would embarrass the hell out of most people. But Donald Trump ain’t never been most people.”