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Mar-a-Lago is Trump's permanent residence, and he is expected to vote from Florida in the November midterms. But he doesn't live there year-round. As Insider reported in June, he escapes the Sunshine State during the sweltering summer months.

According to CNN, Trump was at Trump Tower in New York City at the time of the raid.

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Pro-Trump supporters parked their cars on the sides of the road and trickled in and out of the area throughout the day to show their support. It was a humid, 87-degree day, and many people stayed in their cars.

Technically, people are not allowed to be parked on the bridge because it's a construction site, but two police officers were unsuccessful at clearing out the rally-goes and media that had gathered.

A police officer told Insider that barricades would be placed on the bridge overnight, after people leave, to prevent people from parking there.

Usually when there's a pro-Trump rally going on in the area, protesters will gather at a Publix parking lot that's about 1.5 miles west because there's more space for people to park their cars. The bridge holds about 40 cars back to back.

Several Trump supporters didn't stop on the bridge but instead waved flags outside of their cars and honked as they drove by.

Mary Ma, an immigrant from China who lives in Orlando, said she was at the rally to support Trump and that she believed the raid was designed to stop him from running in 2024.

According to reporting from several news outlets, the search appears to be over boxes of documents that Trump brought back to Florida when he left the White House. That decision spurred a federal investigation, and likely the search on Monday, linked to the Presidential Records Act.

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Legal experts told Insider that the raid of Mar-a-Lago most likely required reviews at the highest levels and convincing evidence supporting a finding of probable cause.

Lisa Blu of Boca Raton, Florida, told Insider that she thought more independents and Democrats would join Republicans after the FBI raid on Trump's home.

"What happened should show the rest of the world that the game is over," said Blu, who writes under that name.

"It is us against the government," she said. "If that could happen to President Trump, it could happen to you or I, to any of us."

But Blu refuted some Republicans' calls for a civil war.

"There is no need for a civil war," she said when asked by Insider about the possibility. "This hopefully brought logical voters together, both middle-of-the-road Democrats and Republicans."

If Republicans take control of the US House in November then they should home in on the FBI, the Department of Justice, and the CIA, she said.

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Pat, of Jupiter, Florida, said was attending a Trump rally outside Mar-a-Lago for the first time and that she thought what the FBI had done was "outrageous."

"It will make the Republicans even angrier and they'll support him even more," she said.

Pat declined to share her last name, joking the "IRS will hunt me down," referring to the increase in budget and workforce for the IRS in a forthcoming bill from Democrats.

Several Trump supporters said that if Republicans take control of the US House in November, they should use their investigation powers to look into the raid.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California threatened on Tuesday to investigate the DOJ and Attorney General Merrick Garland.

But Pat, of Jupiter, said she didn't support McCarthy for speaker. She'd rather it go to GOP Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, she said. She added that more investigations should take place into Biden's son, Hunter Biden.

Dorffman said that Republicans should also investigate the January 6 committee.

Several other outlets were covering the story on the ground, including NPR, Fox News, and CBS News.

Most people who drove by honked in support, but one man rolled down his windows and yelled of Trump, "Lock him up! Lock him up!"

Flags going across the bridge read, "America First," "Thank You, Trump, and the anti-President Joe Biden chant "Let's go Brandon."

Ben Pollock said he was outside Mar-a-Lago to support Trump because his own home in Lakeland, Florida, had also been raided by the FBI.

Pollock and his family were in Washington during the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol.