Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie entered the 2024 Republican presidential primary as the Trump slayer and he has lived up to the billing thus far.
On Monday, during a CNN town hall, Christie commented on the federal indictment against the former president for his handling of classified documents, calling Donald Trump’s actions “awful” and insisting there’s “a lot more information to come.”
“It is a very tight, very detailed, evidence-laden indictment, and the conduct in there is awful,” he said.
“What I can tell you, for sure I know about that indictment, is there’s probably about a third of the evidence they actually have is in that indictment,” Christie opined, before adding, “There will guaranteed be a lot more. When you’re a prosecutor, you never put every card on the table before the trial.”
Chris Christie on Trump’s federal indictment: “It is a very tight, very detailed, evidence-laden indictment, and the conduct in there is awful.” pic.twitter.com/ICtRLlAkdt
— Republican Accountability (@AccountableGOP) June 13, 2023
Trump will be arraigned Tuesday in Miami, Fla., on 37 counts in relation to the classified documents found during the unprecedented FBI raid at Mar-a-Lago, including 31 charges related to the Espionage Act.
Christie also said a second Trump term as president would be worse because “he is angry and he is vengeful.”
“I am convinced if he goes back to the White House, that the next four years will be all about him settling scores, Anderson, with everybody who he thinks wasn’t perfectly nice to him,” the former governor said.
Chris Christie says at a CNN town hall he thinks a second Trump term as president would be worse than the first https://t.co/YPqmpyLyqJ pic.twitter.com/BIU71lNdgP
— CNN (@CNN) June 13, 2023
The other Republican candidates have been reluctant to use Trump’s indictment as campaign fodder, though former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley inched in that direction Monday during an interview on Fox News.
“This is what I’ll tell you, two things can be true at the same time: One, the DOJ and FBI have lost all credibility with the American people, and getting rid of just senior management isn’t going to be enough to fix this. This is going to take a complete overhaul, and we have to do that,” Haley said.
“Two, the second thing can also be true. If this indictment is true, if what it says is actually the case, President Trump was incredibly reckless with our national security,” she added.
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Tom Tillison grew up in Maryland before moving to Central Florida as a young teen. It is in the Sunshine State that he honed both his passion for politics and his writing skills. Tillison also contributes to BizPac Review.
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