Chris Christie delivered a fiery speech tonight in which he “prosecuted” the case against Hillary Clinton. He says voters should hold her accountable for failures in Libya, Syria and elsewhere.
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“She fights for the wrong people”. “The facts of her life and career disqualify her”.
Over and over, Christie asked the delegates if Clinton should be found guilty or not guilty.
A final report issued in 2015 includes 152 people and companies that donated at least $25,000 to the cause, including a $1 million donation from New Jersey rocker Jon Bon Jovi and his band.
Having the high-profile ex-prosecutor as an ally – he’s leading the transition team that will assemble a potential Trump presidential administration – validates Trump’s recent claim that he’s the “law and order” candidate following the death of five Dallas police officers during a peaceful rally. Trump, Clinton said, wanted to “tear up Dodd-Frank and let Wall Street run wild again”. “A deal that will lead to a nuclear Iran, and an Israel that will be less safe and secure and much more unsafe Middle East”, Christie added.
Clinton took to Snapchat Wednesday to blast Christie with behind-the-scenes footage of a meeting between the two after the New Jersey governor offered his bold remarks during a GOP convention address at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland Tuesday night.
His drive, aggression and tell-it-like-it-is political style put Christie on the Romney campaign radar four years ago, and he was treated as a rising star at the 2012 Republican convention in Tampa, Florida. U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman said there’s no evidence the governor had anything to do with the bribery scheme Samson pleaded to.
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Christie, presumingly for the objective of the present moment, did not mention Clinton’s role in building an worldwide coalition that imposed crippling sanctions on Iran. She linked to a New York Times timeline of the George Washington Bridge lane closure scandal.
