Bashing the decision as “deeply flawed,” Barr argued that the Justice Department should appeal it and that a court battle over a special master could delay the DOJ’s inquiry about Trump’s handling of classified material for several months.

“The opinion, I think, was wrong, and I think the government should appeal it. It’s deeply flawed in a number of ways,” Barr explained in an interview with Fox News’s The Story with Martha MacCallum. “I don’t think the appointment of a special master is going to hold up — but even if it does, I don’t see it fundamentally changing the trajectory.”

On Monday, U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon, who was appointed to her post by Trump, greenlit the former president’s petition for the appointment of a special master to review documents seized from Mar-a-Lago by FBI agents during the August raid for privileged material.