Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) on Wednesday ripped former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon for claiming he was doing "the Lord's work" while working in the Trump administration, saying that Bannon wouldn't "know the Lord’s work if it hit him across the forehead.”

Christie made the comment while speaking on Fox News about remarks Bannon makes about his time working with President Trump Donald John TrumpUS reimposes UN sanctions on Iran amid increasing tensions Jeff Flake: Republicans 'should hold the same position' on SCOTUS vacancy as 2016 Trump supporters chant 'Fill that seat' at North Carolina rally MORE in a new documentary, "The Brink," which focuses on his life since leaving the White House in 2017.

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The film is set to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on Wednesday.

“There’s no glamour to the job," Bannon says in the documentary, according to USA Today. "I hated every second I was there. The West Wing has bad karma to it. They say, ‘Because you were doing bad stuff!’ But I was doing the Lord’s work.”

Christie, who briefly led Trump's presidential transition team, scoffed at the remark, arguing that Bannon was himself responsible for the "bad karma" he spoke of.

“The bad karma in the West Wing, I believe, was greatly contributed to by Bannon. It wasn’t his doing alone, but he contributed to it. He was not a team player," Christie said, adding that Bannon was "not somebody who people could count on to have their back."

Christie later said that he would have liked to work in the White House during the beginning stages of Trump's presidency as long as Trump "empowered me to do my job."

"It’s really important that if a president empowers a chief of staff, then you can do a really good job," Christie said.

Bannon began working with Trump during his 2016 presidential campaign and joined the White House as a chief strategist. He left his post in August 2017 and had a public falling out with the president after he was quoted criticizing aspects of the administration in the bestselling book, "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House."

Trump said in a statement at the time that “Steve was rarely in a one-on-one meeting with me and only pretends to have had influence to fool a few people with no access and no clue, whom he helped write phony books."

USA Today noted that Bannon does not speak negatively about Trump in the documentary.