Former Governor Chris Christie (D-NJ) recently told CNN anchor Jake Tapper with casual certainty that former President Donald Trump’s “will become a felon this spring” via Media Ite.
Trump faces 91 felony charges in four different criminal trials, and Christie has taken it upon himself to be the only Republican candidate (remaining) who will speak out against him over the crimes for which he is accused.
On Wednesday’s edition of The Lead, Christie blasted his fellow candidates for the ways in which they support someone who “will become (a felon) this spring”:
“TAPPER: Let me ask you one political question, I know you are in it too when it. You want to win. And I understand that you definitely think Donald Trump should not be president.
Let me just ask you, between Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis, do you think that one of them would be a better president or at least a worst president in the other?
CHRISTIE: I’m not ready to make that call yet. I think there’s a lot more to learn, and a lot more for them to show.
But I will say, it’s really very discouraging to me that hearing Nikki Haley on the stage one tonight saying don Trump was the right president for the right time, however say that she would be willing, she was inclined to pardon him. And for Ron DeSantis to say all the support of things that he said about Donald Trump, including, remember, both of them raised their hands on the stage in the first debate and said they would support him even if he is a convicted felon.
George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, they are rolling in their graves. If they knew that anyone would have the audacity as a felon, which Donald Trump will become this spring, to run for president? And that other people running for the office would be willing to support someone like that? They would have added you can’t be a convicted felon to age 35 and natural born American citizen as requirements for the presidency.
And to say that you could be the rightful heir of the legacy of Washington and Adams and Lincoln and FDR? As someone will say I will support a convicted felon, that gives me grave concerns, Jake, about their judgment, and whether it is just nothing more and craven politics.
And by the way, one last thing, you can’t beat him unless you try to beat him. I mean, they are continuing to come up to the guy. He’s up by 30 points. So, I am trying to beat him. They are trying to come in a very respectable second.
I don’t think that is the way to run any race, it’s never the way I around one. I’m not going to run this one that way.
TAPPER: Former Governor Chris Christie, welcome back from Israel, good to see you, sir.”
