On Monday, he accused Christie of initially issuing a “weak” response.
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump took a shot at New Jersey Governor and GOP rival Chris Christie on Monday.
“Take it easy, Chuck”, Trump finally cut in. “He should stop using his disability to grandstand”, Trump tweeted.
Asked why he didn’t initially denounce Trump more forcefully, Christie said that he felt he was being forceful enough. I’m happy to get the attention from Donald.
“The more people see me, the better I do, so that’s why I’ve spent a lot of time here”, said Christie, “And it’s convenient too”. “And you’re not going to solve the problem unless you’re willing to talk about what the problem is”. He says he recalls televised footage of Muslims celebrating the collapse of the World Trade Centre and an attack on the Pentagon that resulted in the deaths of nearly 3,000 people.
They see that great land disappearing behind a rising tide of previously marginalized people and cultures that don’t look like their traditional image of “American”.
Trump has repeatedly cited a 2001 Washington Post article reporting unverified reports that Muslim Americans in New Jersey applauded the 9/11 attacks.
“It’s just wrong. It’s factually wrong”, Christie said. I have hundreds of people that agree with me.
Christie, who gave an address to the Council on Foreign Relations Tuesday afternoon, spoke about New Jersey’s “large Muslim-American population”, the second largest percentage-wise after MI, in defense of his position that more Syrian refugees should not be allowed into the US until the vetting process is improved.
“Everybody else can figure out what they think is outrageous or not outrageous – in the context of Donald, outrageous is a high bar”, he said.
Trump’s latest dust-up, which boiled over during the past few days, stems from his mockery of a New York Times reporter while Trump was giving a speech in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, last week.
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Trump wasn’t done with Kovaleski. “She thinks, somehow, that this will be insulting to the rest of the Muslim world”, he said. “And I watched in Jersey City, N.J., where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down”.
