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Former President Donald Trump sat down for an interview with the conservative network Newsmax that aired Wednesday night that included some pretty bizarre claims about how Hillary and Bill Clinton supposedly aren’t being held to the same account he is for allegedly taking classified documents out of the White House after his presidency.

How far out there?

Hillary Clinton cleared data off her computers with an acid that is so dangerous it could destroy everything within a 10-mile radius and Bill Clinton snuck documents out in his socks, Trump insisted.

“They released Hillary Clinton. She hammered her phones. She used all sorts of acid testing and everything else, they call it BleachBit, but it’s essentially acid that will destroy everything, you know, within 10 miles. I mean, what she did was unbelievable. Nothing happens to her. Nothing happens to Bill Clinton, he took it out in his socks. You know, the famous socks case,” Trump said.

For some context, a federal judge will hear arguments today on whether to dismiss the classified documents prosecution of Trump, with his attorneys asserting that the former president was entitled to keep the sensitive records with him when he left the White House and headed to Florida.

The dispute centers on the Trump team’s interpretation of the Presidential Records Act, which they say gave him the authority to designate the documents as personal and maintain possession of them after his presidency.

Special counsel Jack Smith’s team, by contrast, says the files Trump is charged with possessing are presidential records, not personal ones, and that the statute does not apply to classified and top-secret documents like those kept at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.

The Presidential Records Act “does not exempt Trump from the criminal law, entitle him to unilaterally declare highly classified presidential records to be personal records, or shield him from criminal investigations — let alone allow him to obstruct a federal investigation with impunity,” prosecutors wrote in a court filing last week.

Trump faces 40 felony counts in Florida that accuse him of willfully retaining dozens of classified documents and rebuffing government demands to give them back after he left the White House. Prosecutors in recent court filings have stressed the scope of criminal conduct that they say they expect to prove at trial, saying in one that “there has never been a case in American history in which a former official has engaged in conduct remotely similar to Trump’s.”

Now, back to the Clintons.

Trump spoke of BleachBit as some sort of mini weapon of mass destruction. BleachBit is a computer program that can clear data off computers — not a liquid acid that will clear a 10-mile radius. The FBI investigated Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email system during the 2016 presidential election.

And on the socks.

From The Washington Post:

“For those who don’t know what Trump is talking about, Clinton asked Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Taylor Branch, a biographer of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and a roommate of Clinton’s during George McGovern’s 1972 presidential campaign, to come to the White House 79 times for interviews during his presidency. The interviews, many of which took place late at night, would act as a personal diary for Clinton’s eight years in office as they were happening.”

“But Clinton was so worried that his staff would leak the audio of the personal records between him and Branch that the president kept the cassette tapes of the interviews hidden in his sock drawer. The tapes, which were taken by Clinton when he left office and never publicly released, were the basis for Branch’s 2009 book, ‘The Clinton Tapes,’ about the Democrat’s tumultuous presidency. Branch mentioned that Clinton kept the tapes in his sock drawer while promoting the book.”

The Associated Press contributed to this report.