Former New Jersey governor and human torpedo Chris Christie took aim at former President Donald J. Trump, mocking the 2024 GOP frontrunner and giving his expert opinion that Trump may be digging a bigger hole for Special Counsel Jack Smith to bury him in.
Since his entry into the race on his mission to destroy the former president with extreme prejudice, the blustering ABC News pundit has been getting nearly as much face time as former Attorney General Bill Barr with the two mounting a two-pronged assault on Trump from television studios. On Tuesday, Christie got in a daytime double-dipper with appearances on CBS and Fox News where he ramped up the attacks on his former political ally.
(Video: Fox News)
Using Trump’s remarks during the first part of his interview with Fox News anchor Bret Baier that aired Monday, the “big kamikaze” candidate sat down with Martha Martha MacCallum on “The Story” where the former federal prosecutor vowed to prosecute his own case against a second term, ripping him for his shortcomings and mocking Trump’s remarks that he was too busy to go through the boxes of documents at Mar-a-Lago that are at the root of his latest indictment.
“I spent seven years prosecuting cases Martha,” he boasted. “And what you’re gonna see over the next six months, I’m going to prosecute the case against Donald Trump’s second term.”
“He failed. He didn’t build the wall — and I want all the viewers out there to know that he’s going to tell you something different — there’s a quarter of the wall done, he said Mexico was gonna pay for it, they haven’t paid one peso yet,” Christie continued. “He said he would balance the budget in four years; he left were the biggest deficit of any American president. He said he was going to repeal and replace Obamacare; and when he had an entire Republican Congress, he didn’t get it done.”
Turning to Trump’s comments to Baier, Christie added, “And so, you gotta take, with a grain of salt, everything he says including last night saying he didn’t go through the boxes that the government was asking him for a year and a half because he’s too busy. Every picture I saw of Donald Trump, since he left the White House is him on a golf course playing golf. Maybe he can spend a few hours going through the boxes so we can avoid what’s happening here for the country.”
Christie also earlier hammered the former president on his golfing during his “CBS Mornings” appearance, posting a clip of the segment to Twitter to mock the embattled Trump.
“Our ancestors fought the British, the Germans, they fought for freedom, for Civil Rights. They fought to save the world,” Christie wrote. “Donny… he’s fighting to save his golf shirts. The battle of Peter Millar is here.”
Our ancestors fought the British, the Germans, they fought for freedom, for Civil Rights. They fought to save the world.
Donny… he’s fighting to save his golf shirts. The battle of Peter Millar is here. pic.twitter.com/SdRJMXU4EG
— Chris Christie (@GovChristie) June 20, 2023
Joking about Trump’s time on the links aside, Christie also said that Trump had admitted to obstruction over the boxes in his Fox News interview, suggesting that Smith has to be licking his chops while Trump’s attorneys are leaping from windows.
Chris Christie on Donald Trump:
“It appears to me last night, as a former prosecutor, that he admitted obstruction of justice on the air last night to Brett Baier…His lawyers this morning are jumping out of whatever window they’re near.” pic.twitter.com/I4IiXhSqZx
— Republican Accountability (@AccountableGOP) June 20, 2023
“And last night, I think the worst moment for him was talking about the fact that he just didn’t have time to go through these boxes. Well, in response to the grand jury subpoena, yet he told the government and had his lawyer certify that he had returned all of the documents that were responsive to the subpoena,” Christie told anchor Tony Dokoupil.
“That is obstruction of justice,” he said. “And it appears to me last night as a former prosecutor, that he had he admitted obstruction of justice on the air last night to Bret Baier. I can tell you this, his lawyers this morning are jumping out of whatever window they’re near.”
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