Bill Barr has repeatedly gone against Donald Trump's stances on the election and Mar-a-Lago raid.
In response, Trump recently called the former attorney general "a weak and pathetic RINO" on social media.
Barr brushed off the accusation in a Tuesday interview with Fox News.
Former US Attorney General Bill Barr recently laughed off Donald Trump's accusation that he was a RINO, or a Republican In Name Only, saying it's a pejorative the former president tends to use against anyone who denies his claims of election fraud.
Barr was responding to a rant Trump posted on Truth Social on Friday, in which the former president said he had "no guts" and was a "weak and pathetic RINO who was so afraid of being Impeached."
"A RINO for him is anyone who disagrees with him that the election was stolen" Barr rebuked during an interview with Fox News host Martha MacCallum on Tuesday.
He then recalled his childhood when he passed out leaflets supporting Barry Goldwater, the Arizona senator who was known as one of the forefathers of the modern conservative movement.
"As someone who handed out Barry Goldwater literature when I was 14 years old on the Upper West Side, it's a little silly," he said.
The former attorney general was once a staunch defender of Trump, but following the 2020 election, he has repeatedly butted heads with the former president in public and private comments.
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