GOP presidential candidate Chris Christie was not in attendance at the forum hosted by the Family Leadership Summit in Des Moines, IA. The forum was led by Tucker Carlson, who grilled many candidates with tough, direct questions.
The former governor of New Jersey was asked on ABC’s “This Week” how he would have responded to Carlson on Ukraine if he had attended.
“I would have said that, ‘you’ve always been wrong on this Tucker, and you’re still wrong,'” Christie started. “That in fact what’s going on George is that this is a proxy war with China,” he declared.
“The Chinese are funding the Russian war by buying Russian oil. They are coordinating with the Iranians to provide lethal weapons to the Russian army. And we can decide when to have this conflict.”
“Right now, the Ukrainians are willing to fight this fight for themselves if they have our support to be able to win it. If the Chinese watch us back away from Ukraine as Tucker Carlson and others would advocate, believe me, the next move will be Taiwan,” Christie speculated.
George Stephanopoulos then asked, “He was getting standing ovations you don’t think that’s a big sell on the Republican party?” “I don’t,” Christie replied.
“And I tell ya as I travel around George, look I’m not saying there’s not some division in the party there is that’s obvious,” he backtracked. “But I still absolutely believe, both from what I’ve seen in polling and what I’m experiencing anecdotally that a majority of Republicans want us to be supporting Ukraine. Because those folks are fighting for their own freedom, their own liberty and they’re degrading the Russian army and sending a message to the Chinese. Those are all good things for America.”
You cans see the interaction in the tweet below:
Carlson saw Christie’s rant and extended him an invitation to have a longer sit-down discussion on the matter. Christie however refused the offer and Carlson revealed this on Twitter calling the former Governor a “blustery coward who plays the tough guy with sycophants at ABC but won’t answer real questions”.
Carlson it appears is trying to put public pressure on Christie to get him to have a real conversation instead of hiding behind softball media coverage. After seeing the pressure Carlson put on many of the GOP presidential candidates it appears that Christie may be afraid of a real conversation that Carlson is offering.
“Sounds like this could use a longer conversation. We just asked @GovChristie to sit down and explain his views on Ukraine. He refused. You hate to think that Chris Christie is a blustery coward who plays the tough guy with sycophants at ABC but won’t answer real questions, but who knows? We hope he reconsiders.”
Christie has been talking himself up on ABC quite frequently but hasn’t really participated in any forums with other candidates. We will see if he makes it to the debate stage and what comes from that.
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Christie is a coward and a Rino.