Chris Christie put on a rollicking show trial of Hillary Clinton at the Republican Convention Tuesday night – leading the audience in Cleveland to shout “guilty!” over and over again in response to his allegations about the former secretary of state.
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Several delegates said that voters’ view of Clinton – particularly in Republican-leaning Kansas – is largely negative.
Christie, one of Trump’s closest allies and a former federal prosecutor, said that Clinton’s policies while secretary of state had helped an al Qaeda-affiliated terror group abduct 300 young schoolgirls in Nigeria and accused her of abetting President Bashar al-Assad in Syria, enabling Iran and Cuba’s Castro brothers along with lying to Americans about her private email server.
Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, has a track record of achieving the “impossible”, his son has said, while his daughter told Americans that his father is a natural-born encourager as the siblings made a passionate push for the candidacy of their dad’s race for the White House.
On the latter topic, he charged Clinton “cared more about protecting her own secrets than our national security secrets”. “Look around at the violence and danger in our world today“.
“She’ll throw every possible obstacle in the path of safe, reliable, affordable energy produced in America, by Americans, for American businesses and families”.
Donald Trump was a topic Clinton kept going back to, knowing he’s opposed the Culinary Union in the past.
“As an very bad judge of the character of a dictator and butcher in the Middle East, is she guilty or not guilty?” he shouted in reference to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Many delegates responded by chanting “lock her up, lock her up“, while others brandished “Hillary for Prison” signs.
“We have a man who wants to lead us…It is time to come together and make sure that Donald Trump is the next president of the United States!”. “And I think to underestimate how that impacts the way you make decisions, the rapidity of your decisions, and the nature of them, is to give less of an understanding than there really needs to be to that triangle”.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell lit into Clinton over her email scandal and the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya. “We have never been victims of destiny”, Christie said on his primetime speech in August 2012, remarks that served as a primer for his presidential ambitions.
Following the announcement, speakers including Trump’s campaign-rivals-turned-supporters, Dr. Ben Carson and Gov. Chris Christie, and two of his children, Tiffany Trump and Donald Trump Jr., were scheduled to speak, as well as House Speaker Paul Ryan. Each time, the crowd roared, “Guilty!“. He said Trump was not ready to do that yet.
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Faced Tuesday morning with questions about Trump, Straus declined to offer any support for the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, saying he is “100 percent focused” on his chairmanship of the Republican Legislative Campaign Committee, which works to get GOP lawmakers elected across the county.
