Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (R) lit into former president and 2024 GOP frontrunner Donald Trump on Thursday, while reacting to Trump’s CNN town hall the night before.
Christie was on the Hugh Hewitt radio show and was asked about the town hall, which quickly became a lightning rod of controversy and was denounced by CNN’s own Oliver Darcy as a “spectacle of lies.”
“What was your reaction to last night’s town hall?” Hewitt asked.
Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (R) lit into former president and 2024 GOP frontrunner Donald Trump on Thursday, while reacting to Trump’s CNN town hall the night before.
Christie was on the Hugh Hewitt radio show and was asked about the town hall, which quickly became a lightning rod of controversy and was denounced by CNN’s own Oliver Darcy as a “spectacle of lies.”
“What was your reaction to last night’s town hall?” Hewitt asked.
Hewitt and Christie then spoke at length about how the issue of abortion will factor into 2024 presidential politics and both agreed with Trump that a national abortion ban is bad politics for the GOP.
Hewitt then turned the conversation to Trump’s highly controversial response on Ukraine, in which moderator Kaitlan Collins asked Trump if he wanted to see Ukraine “win” the war. Trump refused to give a straight answer to the question, instead saying, “I want everybody to stop dying.”
“Again, it’s an interview, not a debate. Look, I have a different approach. You know, I just ask questions, Governor, so let me ask some more. He said about Ukraine that it was not prudent to call Putin a war criminal. Do you agree with him?” Hewitt asked.
“No. No, I think he’s a coward, and I think he’s a puppet of Putin. I really do. I think, I don’t know why.
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