Chris Christie blasts Trump for claiming his indictment is 'a badge of honor'

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie reacted to Donald Trump's characterization of his indictments as badges of "honor and braveness."

Christie appeared on CNN's State of the Union on Sunday and was proven a clip of Trump from the Turning Level USA convention Saturday night time. Within the clip, Trump claimed: "Each time the novel Left Democrats, Marxists, communists, and fascists indict me, I take into account it to be an excellent badge of honor and braveness. I’m doing it for you. I’m being indicted for you." As Trump's opponent for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, Christie scoffed on the assertion.

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"He’s a liar and a coward. He’s not getting indicted for anybody apart from due to his personal conduct," Christie mentioned. "When he says he’s doing it for us, that’s a lie. And when he was doing all of the issues that he was doing with these paperwork, it reveals precisely what a coward he's."

A brilliant PAC supporting Christie issued a political advert Sunday attacking Trump for not taking part in a Republican main debate. The clip proven on CNN Sunday implied that ought to Trump present as much as a debate, he will likely be confronted along with his indictments, loss to President Joe Biden, and impeachments. Christie inspired Trump to seem on the debate to "defend his report." Nevertheless, in an ABC interview, he referred to it as "a report that's not nice."

Anchor Jake Tapper identified that 2024 opponent Will Hurd will likely be following Trump's precedent in 2016, in keeping with Christie, in not committing to assist the GOP nominee regardless of who that individual is. Hurd's determination to not commit his assist will preclude him from the first debate for the Republican Occasion. Eight years in the past, when there have been ten candidates on the controversy stage, all however Trump agreed to assist the candidate forward of the nomination.

"I'll signal the controversy pledge, and I'll take it each bit as severely as [Trump] did in 2016," Christie mentioned.

Moreover, Christie has met the fundraising threshold to qualify for the first debate.

Christie, Trump, and Hurd are going through off in opposition to former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, former Vice President Mike Pence, Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), Gov. Doug Burgum (R-ND), Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, political commentator Larry Elder, and businessmen Vivek Ramaswamy and Perry Johnson within the race to win the GOP presidential nomination.