Chris Christie, who has been planted in the early primary state of New Hampshire, advanced another mile Thursday on his truth-telling tour against Trump, chiding the former president from a Manchester diner on two mediums that helped his 2016 campaign: Fox News and Twitter.
As he has skewered former President Donald Trump in recent town halls, Christie again took aim at the Republican frontrunner for threatening to skip primary debates − the first of which is slated for Aug. 23 in Milwaukee.
“Trump says he doesn’t ‘think it’s fair’ for him to have to debate,” Christie said in a tweet. “Crybabies and losers say life isn’t fair. And Trump is both. Want to be President? Then get in the ring pal…”
Christie alluded to the same issue during a town hall Wednesday night in Derry, New Hampshire.
“Unlike other candidates, I’m going to keep answering any and every question,” he said in a veiled reference to Trump potentially skipping debates. “Most importantly though, I’m actually going to tell you the truth.”
Christie’s campaign slogan is “Because the truth matters.”
He has said he got into the 2024 race because he has the guts to take on Trump. Each day on social media, he has picked a new Trump issue to pick apart, showing patterns in the former president’s words and behaviors.
For example, he pointed out while Trump was president he claimed to have “the best team” with his Cabinet picks. But now Trump has called most of them “losers” or other names − especially if they disagreed with his unsubstantiated claims the election was stolen.
On Thursday, Christie chastised Trump for saying he wouldn’t be treated fairly by moderators in debates and would be “libeled and abused.”
He pointed out several examples of Trump saying he was being treated unfairly − by networks, voters, the Department of Justice, the IRS, judges and others.
“We need a Commander in Chief not a Whiner in Chief,” Christie said in a tweet.
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