Chants of “guilty” and “lock her up” filled the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland Tuesday night as New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie repeatedly asked delegates at the Republican National Convention the same question repeatedly: “Is she guilty or not guilty?” Baldasaro spoke at numerous Trump rallies during the primary campaign, and Trump once praised him as “my favorite vet”. This would allow officials to keep their jobs in a new, possibly Republican, administration, Christie said.
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In what amounted to a closing argument, Christie said of Clinton, “We can not promote someone to Commander-in-Chief who has made the world a more violent and unsafe place with every bad judgment she has made”. “You take them from the political appointee side into the civil service side, in order to try to set up … roadblocks for your successor, kind of like when all the Clinton people took all the Ws off the keyboard when George Bush was coming into the White House”.
Instead of focusing on the state of the economy – the theme of the night in Cleveland was “Make America Work Again” – Christie joined a chorus of Republicans who used the pulpit to continue knocking Clinton as they had the night before during a national security focused evening.
The next morning, it seemed, the ante was raised, when news broke that Al Baldasaro, a prominent Trump supporter who advises the campaign on veterans’ issues, had said on a radio show that Clinton deserves to “be put in the firing line and shot for treason”.
Other establishment Republicans who spoke Tuesday also focused on attacking Clinton.
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“The next time there’s a State of the Union Address, you’ll find me right there on the rostrum with Vice President Mike Pence and President Donald Trump”. Trump frequently says he is better equipped to be president because of his business experience. He said Trump was not ready to do that yet.
