“He sold us out,” Greene, who on Monday called for the defunding of the FBI, said of McConnell earlier this summer. “He’s everything wrong with the Republican Party.”

But several high-profile Republicans who are widely expected to run for president in 2024 didn’t immediately condemn the search either. Contrasting sharply with widely expected presidential hopeful and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis—who called the Biden-run White House a “Banana Republic” shortly after Trump’s announcement—New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said in a Tuesday interview with SiriusXM’s Julie Mason that the search was “fair game.”

Similarly, GOP Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina said in CBS Mornings interview Tuesday that Americans should let the investigation “play out” before they jump to conclusions about whether the FBI acted with nefarious intent in carrying out the search.

Breaking with Scott’s far more measured response to the news, some Republican senators offered explicit condemnations of the search without knowing why it was conducted. GOP Sen. Josh Hawley said Tuesday that “at a minimum” Garland should resign or be impeached. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, who faces Democratic Senate nominee and Florida Rep. Val Demings in November, compared the search later that evening to Nicaragua’s authoritarian regime under Daniel Ortega.