Former Attorney General Bill Barr recently attacked his old boss, accusing former President Donald Trump of using a "wacky" defense to charges that he mishandled classified documents. 

According to the Washington Post, Barr's comments came during a Sunday appearance on CBS News' "Face the Nation."

Barr calls Trump's arguments "absurd"

He was reacting to a speech Trump gave last week to supporters at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster in which he cited the Presidential Records Act.

"The Espionage Act has been used to go after traitors and spies. It has nothing to do with a former president legally keeping his own documents," Newsweek quoted Trump as saying.

"As president, the law that applies to this case is not the Espionage Act but very simply the Presidential Records Act, which is not even mentioned in this ridiculous 44-page indictment," the former president added.

Yet Barr dismissed that claim, stating, "The legal theory by which he gets to take battle plans and sensitive national security information as his personal papers is absurd."

National Archives and Records Administration disputes Trump's claim

"It’s just as wacky as the legal doctrine they came up with for, you know, having the vice president unilaterally determine who won the election," the former attorney general insisted.

Meanwhile, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) put out a statement that also disputed Trump's position.

"There is no history, practice, or provision in law for presidents to take official records with them when they leave office to sort through," it read.

"If a former President or Vice President finds Presidential records among personal materials, he or she is expected to contact NARA in a timely manner to secure the transfer of those Presidential records to NARA," the statement continued.

Barr also disagreed with suggestions that Trump should not be charged given how no charges were laid against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Hunter Biden given sweetheart plea bargain

"That's not a frivolous argument," he acknowledged. "But I'm not sure that's true. I think if you want to restore the rule of law and equal justice, you don't do it by further derogating from justice."

However, doubts about equal justice are likely to grow after Hunter Biden entered into a plea bargain that will allow him to avoid jail time for an illegal gun purchase and failing to pay taxes.

Unless I’m missing something, this is troubling. https://t.co/QyizW5PCpQ

— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) June 20, 2023