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Former New Jersey Republican Gov. Chris Christie tore into New York Times senior political reporter Maggie Haberman for her ironic response to the “gun control problem.”
During an interview on ABC’s “Powerhouse Roundtable,” Haberman ironically claimed the Republican Party is conducting a “purging of anybody who goes against a certain orthodoxy.”
Haberman was apparently blinded to the fact that Democrats have done that for many years, including launching primary challenges against “moderate” members of the party.
Anchor George Stephanopoulos kicked off the gun control debate by asking Haberman to “talk about moral courage, Maggie Haberman, Chris Jacobs, Republican Congressman from New York comes out for an assault weapons ban after the Buffalo shooting he has to drop out of his race.”
Haberman whined “it’s a really remarkable moment in the Republican Party. It’s essentially a purging of anybody who goes against a certain orthodoxy.” Referring to Jacobs’s New York congressional district, she complained “there’s a gun culture, it’s not entirely surprising that it has become this litmus test issue in this direction.”
Pretending that her own party isn’t currently issuing litmus tests for the “Green New Deal” or defunding the police, Haberman wailed “it’s not entirely surprising that it has become this litmus test issue in this direction is really I think the course of the last decade and it speaks to why there’s inaction in Washington.”
Haberman dramatically added that “we are in an extreme moment.”
Later on in the segment, Stephanopoulos asked Christie to respond to what Haberman said before adding his own leftist opinion by claiming that “it does appear there’s been a hardening in the Republican Party around this issue.”
Christie shot back that “there’s been a hardening on both sides” and President Joe Biden’s “speech this week reflected that as well on the Democratic side.”
“People in each party have decided there’s no compromise here because there’s no one on the other side willing to compromise. And they say that about each other and point fingers both ways,” Christie added before Stephanopoulos jumped in to argue against Christie’s point.
“Is this really a both sides issue though?” Stephanopoulos whined.
Christie correctly responded that Biden’s rhetoric on guns has poisoned the well: “I think both sides create the atmosphere, so when the President is saying the stuff he said in his speech the other evening this week, and the emotion that he says it with, he’s essentially trying to imply people who disagree with him are immoral.”
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