“This is all (Trump) saying … ‘I’m more important than the country,'" he said. He said the simple fact that Trump is “voluntarily putting our country through this." That trove is believed to include plans for war with Iran, details about US nuclear weapons and daily security briefings from his time in office.Īfter that, Christie pointed to the implication in the indictment that Trump lied and tried to involve his personal lawyer, who eventually ended up being made to turn over documents to prosecutors. He said the “nature of the documents” that Trump is accused of unlawfully retaining after leaving office was particularly damning. The indictment of Donald Trump: Christie began the town hall by slamming Trump for the alleged behavior spelled out in the federal indictment against the former president. He also made a case for his own candidacy, pointing to his past experience and laying out his stance on a variety of issues from abortion, to the southern border and the war in Ukraine.
His comments set the tone for the night and made clear that Christie – who leaned into his own record as a former federal prosecutor – sees his role in the 2024 Republican presidential primary as being the chief critic of Trump, willing to take on the front-runner while most other contenders duck confrontation. Chris Christie laid into Donald Trump in a CNN town hall Monday night, calling the former president “angry” and “vengeful” and accusing him of “vanity run amok” within the event’s opening minutes. Chris Christie speaks at a CNN Republican Presidential Town Hall moderated by CNN’s Anderson Cooper in New York on Monday, June 12.
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