Former New Jersey governor and GOP presidential candidate Chris Christie said Donald Trump gets “worse by the day” after the former president quoted Vladimir Putin at a rally on Saturday.
“Joe Biden is a threat to democracy. He’s a threat,” Trump told supporters at his rally in Durham, New Hampshire. “Even Vladimir Putin of Russia says that Biden’s—and this is a quote—‘politically motivated persecution of his political rival is very good for Russia because it shows the rottenness of the American political system, which cannot pretend to teach others about democracy.’”
In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday, Christie was asked by host Jake Tapper for his reaction to Trump “approvingly quoting Vladimir Putin.”
“My reaction is that he gets worse and worse by the day, Jake, and voters better start paying attention to exactly what he’s saying,” Christie said. “He has always been approving of Putin right from the beginning of his presidency. That was something that he and I had regular arguments about going all the way back to 2017.”
“This is a guy who doesn’t even know what democracy is and, quite frankly, spent most of his life trying to undercut democracy all over the world,” Christie continued. “And Donald Trump citing him as his expert witness that he’s being persecuted and is innocent, look, this is a guy who just believes: ‘Woe is me, woe is me. I can’t believe I got caught.’”
Trump faces a total of 91 charges across four criminal cases in New York, Georgia, Florida and Washington, D.C.
