Chris Christie calls Trump's legal team a 'national embarrassment'
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Via: john-russell • 5 years ago • 94 commentsBy: Kevin Liptak and Devan Cole (CNN)
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(CNN)A staunch ally of Donald Trump said Sunday it was time for the President to end his futile gambit to overturn the results of the election.
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Trump has failed to provide any evidence of fraud, that his legal team was in shambles and that it's time to put the country first. Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie listens as US President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in the Briefing Room of the White House on September 27, 2020 in Washington, DC. "If you have got the evidence of fraud, present it," Christie said on ABC, where he is a contributor. He decried efforts by the President's lawyers to smear Republican governors who have not gone along with the President's false claims of voter malfeasance.
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"Quite frankly, the conduct of the President's legal team has been a national embarrassment," he said, singling out Trump attorney Sidney Powell's accusations against Georgia GOP Gov. Brian Kemp. Read More Georgia will conduct another recount of its presidential ballots following a Trump campaign request Saturday, but the recount is extremely unlikely to change his loss in the state. President-elect Joe Biden, who was declared the winner Friday as the state certified the results, has a 12,670 vote or .2% lead over Trump in Georgia. "This is outrageous conduct by any lawyer," Christie said Sunday, noting Trump's attorneys have levied wild accusations in public but have not, so far, raised them in court, where there are consequences for providing false information. "They allege fraud outside the courtroom, but when they go inside the courtroom, they don't plead fraud and they don't argue fraud," he said. "Listen," Christie concluded, "I have been a supporter of the President's. I voted for him twice, but elections have consequences, and we cannot continue to act as if something happened here that didn't happen." "If you are unwilling to come forward and present the evidence, it must mean the evidence doesn't exist," he went on. "The country is what has to matter the most. As much as I'm a strong Republican and I love my party, it's the country that has to come first."
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Maryland's Republican Gov. Larry Hogan also sharply criticized Trump's efforts on Sunday, telling CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union" that he's "embarrassed that more people in the party aren't speaking up" about what he called the "bizarre" moves. "We used to go supervise elections around the world, and we were the most respected, you know, country with respect to elections. And now we're beginning to look like we're a banana republic. It's time for them to stop the nonsense," Hogan said, adding that Trump's meeting last week with members of the Michigan state Legislature's Republican leadership -- as part of an effort to pressure local leaders on election results -- was "completely outrageous." Biden Transition
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Trump shot back at Hogan later Sunday, saying in a tweet that the governor is a "RINO," or Republican in name only, who will "never make the grade." Hogan replied in his own tweet, urging the President to "stop golfing and concede." Hogan, a moderate member of his party, is a known critic of Trump. He revealed last month that he cast a vote for Ronald Reagan in this year's contest, making him one of the highest-profile Republicans to publicly withhold support from the President. In addition to Hogan and Christie, a number of other notable Republicans have also publicly signaled that they support starting the formal presidential transition process, including Rep. Paul Mitchell of Michigan and Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska. 
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Christie will change his tune as soon as Trump attacks him.
Here's the thing: It was Chris Christie who was in charge of the prosecution of Charles Kushner, also known as Jared Kushner's father, also known as Ivanka Trump's father-in-law. Charles Kushner spent 3 years in federal prison for campaign finance violations, bribery, extortion and some other shit I can't remember off the top of my head. It will be interesting to see how this plays out with this circle of...jerks.
i also do not have faith, nor do i trust Christie, the tunneled under Bridgegate and threw his subservient one under bus ted. He is a Dick. In this case, he is speaking logically, but it will not sway the A whole donut who he helped get el;ected and has backed, even with a fat front, cause Chris could have helped avert a crisis, instead he chose to bite his tongue, while shovelin in more bull than he spewed, n swallowed , what should have never been chewed, , was a phat horses ass, when he should have been shewed , cause the irony of a horse shoe, knowing more than he knew, is too tough eat, like horse meat, and hay, it's more about watt won does than that which they say, off to catch a buzz, as i sometimes go that way
Much to agree with, Iggy. Christi, like Trump, is a two-faced liar and thinks only of saving his own a$$ when the crap goes down, and does not hesitate to throw those who trusted him under the bus. His days of being the high and mighty in NJ came to a very unpleasant halt.
I would not trust him as far as I could throw is fat arse. So now that he is trying to reprimand his good buddy Trump to do the right thing seems a bit hypocritical in my opinion.
Enjoy the buzz.
At least my wife does.
He accepted Presidential help when NJ need it
and threated Obama not only like the President but as a man
That went a long way for North Jersey and the Jersey shore.
JMHO
Mine too SP.
There ya go, Buzz!
Iggy, you are spot on target!
Pretty bad when in today's political circles..... Christi sounds reasonable. Time to check the basement for pods.....
My lady likes a hummmmmm
Instead, "Laughingstock", is the word I would've used...
And imagine that there are people who are contributing $$ to these ridiculous Trump legal initiatives. What is the origin of such foolishness? Is it extremely wishful thinking or simply an inability to comprehend the facts?
this farce of trump's will continue until the money stops coming in or the election is certified.
Do you think certification will stop Trump's nonsense? At this point I am not so sure.
no. his money raising scam will pivot from legal defense fund to re-election fund. all the proceeds will ultimately end up in the same place though, his pockets.
Nothing will stop Trump's nonsense no matter what happens.
I think it is a safe bet that Trump will continue his bullshit game until he drops. He will spend the rest of his life trying to convince people that this election was a fraud. He will become the exemplar of 'poor loser' (among other things).
Hard to imagine Trump looking worse than he did during his term, but I think this charade has done so. Talk about self-destructing one's reputation.
Most likely.
I do wonder, does he really believe he won, or is he lying? Or is is something in between - he's told the lie so many times that he's started believing it himself, even if he knew in the beginning that it was a lie?
His entire life is a fraud.
he has subliminally convinced himself, that due to no convictions, and the surrounding of "yes" men, that he, and he alone, decides the depiction of reality to natural artificiality, that is Trumps' Divided States Nationality, Naturally enhanced by perceptional distortion brought via the current White House abortion, finally, in his final Trimester , all up, and has the inability to see, it was he, as he is the one who creates his own National Reality
and to the sane , our National Nightmare, and for so many to still not see, a National Calamity
Trump is lying. That's how he lives.
otherwise, he'd be lying
in a coffin, and nothin to sneeze at
Exactly!
Good question. He might actually believe his own bullshit.
it's the collateral damage he's causing the GOP that I'm most interested in. the georgia senate runoff will tell how much, if any.
Millions of people (voters) have been defrauded by him, or know he's a fraud but for whatever reason(s) don't care. For some, apparently, it was trying to gain control of the Supreme Court and other aspects of the so-called "conservative" agenda.
Hey we have at least one of the 'whatever Trump does is right' here on NT. It is fascinating reading what comes from that mind.
What mind?
There ya go! Not all that hard to figure out.
Next comes retaining the Senate, to keep (not my president) Biden from doing anything stupid.
It's sickenly fascinating
Hmmmm....do you remember mocking and taunting people when they said that trmp wasn't their president?
I do.
So, apparently you are one of those who knows Trump is a fraud, but don't care. That says a lot.
Trump did incredibly stupid things every day. Did you object?
While I'm not suggesting this at all, one bullet could G.
His whole life he has been insane. His parents sent him to military school for a reason that didn't take. Military school just made him more of a bully and a rapist.
Once a sociopath, always a sociopath.
Trump has lost his legal battles with Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Michigan. At what point will the realization that Trump lost the election sink in with his supporters?
I am somewhat doubtful.
In the meantime, he will make the transition as difficult for Biden as possible, which only hurts the American people.
Well, it's not like it was stellar to begin with.
Mind?
That's not very civil, is it? I thought you conservatives were above that sort of thing?
Amazing isn't it. People are going from saying that donald is the president, it must be accepted, blah blah..to saying Biden rigged the election, did not win, etc... and will do everything possible to make his term hell.
They never had any intention of working with others. It is always their way or no way.
But they expect us to be civil....which I'm working on. I don't really relish wrestling with pigs in the mud. The pig enjoys it too much and I just end up muddy
Well THAT has never happened before................/S
Yep, ask Obama.
To a much lesser extent..................................was he ever facing congressional hearing after congressional hearing for bullshit?
The many investigations into the administration of Barack Obama
Yes, President Trump, Congress also investigated Barack Obama
How exactly is Biden's presidency illegitimate? He won the election.
And they are demonstrably wrong. They can "feel" whatever they like, as it seems they run off of emotion rather than rational thought anyway. But the numbers do not lie. Besides, clearly more people "feel" differently.
More partisan rhetoric that does nothing for the nation as a whole.
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That's the only thing Jello is good for
What is the origin of such foolishness?
Given what passes for facts at Facebook and NewsMax...... Trump voters are happy to stay in their bubble..
Day late and a dollar short, Christie. Separating children from their parents and losing the children is okay with you, Christie? Same goes for the rest of the compliant/complicit GOP.
Embarrassing? Really? Embarrassing to the GOP? And again, really? GOP, the party of amorality, faithlessness and cruelty.
Senator Kevin Kramer of ND has instructed his staff to cooperate with the Biden team.
This joke of a legal team is a total embarresment. A true ''shit show''.
They should be brought up before their Law Societies (Bar Associations?) on ethics charges. Their claims are frivolous. In Canada, the judges would not only throw their claims out of court but render all costs of the proceedings, including full scale defence lawyer fees, to be paid forthwith by those attorneys bringing those claims - They don't get away with this shit in Canada.
Powell is no longer part of the Trump ''legal team''....According to the Trump campaign, she was never part of the so called team.
Among real lawyers they are known as the ''Shit Show Team'' and now there is one less shitty member of the Shit Show Team.
she's probably running a competing money gathering scam, now that there's almost 72 million suckers available
There is a sucker (72million) born every minute.
A very appropriate name for their 'Team". Every one of them is so full of it. Hopefully the rest will tire of dragging their own name through the gutter for Trump who will throw them under the bus as well, and walk away before their name will be in the garbage can.
Trump is within grasping another first.
When the recount in GA is completed Trump will become the first president to have lost the same state three times in three weeks.
The ''Shit Show'' rolls on.