Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who is currently vying for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, issued a warning of sorts to his main competitor, former President Donald Trump, as legal cases against him mount.
Christie, a former federal prosecutor, said Monday he thinks that former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, who left Congress to take the job, is about to turn on Trump, saying he looks like a “cooperating witness.”
“Do you think Mark Meadows is gonna testify?” CNN’s Anderson Cooper asked Christie.
“Oh, I’ve said all along I think Mark Meadows is already a cooperating witness. He has all the looks of a cooperating witness – running into coffee shops away from the press,” the GOP contender responded.
“And he’s disappeared in the indictment,” Cooper noted. “He’s referenced once or twice.”
“So, when you didn’t see Mark Meadows as an unindicted co-conspirator, and you see absolutely no mention of him at all?” Christie said.
“How devastating do you think his testimony could be?” Cooper asked.
“It could be the worst testimony for him outside the family members because Mark Meadows was with him constantly during that time,” Christie responded in a reference to the period of time following the 2020 election and before the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol Building.
“And involved in all of it,” Cooper said.
“He was a very involved chief of staff, in my experience,” said the former governor. “He made sure he was in every meeting and every conversation. And we remember, there are hundreds of text messages that he turned over to the special counsel that he kept.”‘
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Last month, Fox News host Kayleigh McEnany tore into Christie over a campaign strategy she says is a sure loser.
Christie has been praising the Biden Justice Department and the FBI despite their unprecedented focus on the former president, who has been indicted several times, including for an alleged crime — mishandling classified documents — that President Biden himself has been accused of doing.
After Christie’s recent defense of FBI Director Christopher Wray, McEnany said during a segment on “Outnumbered” that it won’t win over many Republicans, let alone supporters of Trump.
Earlier on Fox News, Christie said in reference to Wray’s testimony before a House committee earlier in the day: “I did recommend him to President Trump, and I’m proud that I did.”
“Those things they’re talking about today, and the director made this point over and over again, are all things from when Jim Comey, Eric Holder, and Loretta Lynch were in charge of the Justice Department — before he got put in charge,” Christie said. “He fired the entire Comey leadership team out of the FBI, they’re all gone.”
“Is it all fixed? Of course, it’s not all fixed. Jim Comey and Eric Holder, and Loretta Lynch drastically harmed the Department of Justice and the FBI. And Chris Wray has now spent years fixing that,” Christie added. “What you saw today was an animated and combative FBI director who is defending the men and women who work for him… and do a great job…”
He added: “So yeah, I think Chris Wray has done a very good job, and I think a lot of the stuff you see today is theater, people trying to raise money for campaigns.”
McEnany chimed in after the clip played.
“Best of luck to Chris Christie with that message in a GOP primary, which has tremendous distrust for the FBI,” she said.
After noting that Wray has made some positive changes and done some good things at the bureau, she also said much of what is wrong today he hasn’t addressed.
“There’s a lot of questions for him — this ‘radical traditionalist Catholic’ memo which he rescinded, he said he was ‘aghast’ by it. But yet he won’t allow the authors of that before Congress,” she added.
“None of this instills confidence in the American people, many of whom have distrust for the FBI.”
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