Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie Continues to Go After Trump – Watch
Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie continued his attacks on Donald Trump in Sunday morning interviews, calling the former president a “coward” and a “threat to our democracy.”
Christie told ABC News’ “This Week” that he believes Trump will show up to the first Republican primary debate next month because “he’d be enormously frustrated sitting back in Bedminster and watching what I’m going to do to him on that stage in absentia.”
“If you want to be the nominee, you need to defend your record,” Christie said. “And he has a record of four years as president where he didn’t deliver on a lot of issues that Republicans cared deeply about. He didn’t repeal and replace Obamacare like he said he would, even though he had a Republican Congress. He said he was going to balance the budget, he added $6 trillion to the national debt. He said he was going to build the wall in Mexico. He built 47 miles of new wall. You know, George, at that pace in four years, he’d need 110 years as president to be able to finish the wall.”
Appearing on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Christie said that Trump’s recent indictment for keeping classified documents at Mar-a-Lago was “the latest example of his lawlessness.” He also criticized Trump for his refusal to back Ukraine against Russia, saying that Trump is “more interested in appeasing Putin than in standing up for our allies.”
“He’s a liar and a coward,” Christie said. “He’s not getting indicted for anyone other than because of his own conduct. There’s no other of the 200 million Americans he spoke about who illegally retained classified national secrets after being asked politely, quietly, and professionally for 18 months to voluntarily turn them back over after he left the White House.”
Christie’s attacks on Trump are part of his strategy to position himself as the leading anti-Trump candidate in the 2024 Republican presidential primary. Christie has been a vocal critic of Trump since leaving the White House in 2018, and he has said that he believes Trump is a “danger to our country.”
