New Jersey Governor Chris Christie speaks in a press conference at the State House in Trenton, New Jersey, March 3, 2016.
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Chris Christie devoted his speech to the Republican National Convention to a mock prosecution of Hillary Clinton, going through a list of attacks on the candidate and asking the crowd at the Quicken Loans Arena, “Guilty or not guilty?”
“She fights for the wrong people, she never fights for us”, he said. She called President Assad a reformer. He also said that the first day of a convention is always “the worst”, and that everyone would soon move on from this controversy.
“Since the Justice Department refuses to allow you to render a verdict, let’s present the case now, on the facts, against Hillary Clinton”, he said.
“It is time to come together and make sure that Donald Trump is the next president of the United States”, he concluded.
Donald Trump’s campaign manager, Paul Manafort, told CNN Tuesday the plagiarism accusations were “just really absurd”, and that “there’s no cribbing of Michelle Obama’s speech”.
But “of course I’m disappointed”, he said.
Christie – who himself is facing legal woes over the “Bridgegate” scandal over the politically motivated lane closures on the George Washington Bridge – sought to have the crowd “indict” Clinton over her conduct as an elected official.
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Christie denied tension between him and Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner. Christie cited chaos in Libya, missing school girls in Nigeria and scores killed in Syria as examples of her blunders. He dismissed reports of conflict as a “Shakespearean thing to write about”.
