The outcry over the FBI raid on Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence has led supporters of the former president to scrutinize the people behind the investigation.

Calls have been made to defund the FBI, while Trump himself labeled the incident as "prosecutorial misconduct," and even made unfounded claims the Feds "planted" evidence in his mansion.

Left-leaning commentators have hit back at some of these excoriations, but in doing so may have also helped spread inaccuracies.

A number of tweets posted on 9 August, 2022, including one by former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann, claimed that Bruce Reinhart, the district judge who signed off the Mar-a-Lago raid, was a Trump appointee.

It wasn't long after the Mar-a-Lago raid on Monday, August 8, 2022, that conspiratorial voices began to describe the investigation as a "deep state operation," organized by powers determined to silence former president Trump.

The notion of that claim is fairly spurious, particularly, as FBI director Christopher Wray was appointed by Trump, while he was president.