Chris Christie: ‘The circus continues’ on Trump calling for protests over potential arrest

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) on Sunday mentioned “the circus continues” in response to a query about former President Trump claiming he’ll be arrested on Tuesday in reference to an alleged hush-money cost to adult-film star Stormy Daniels — and in addition urged his supporters to protest.

“The circus continues. I imply, look, he solely income and does effectively in chaos and turmoil. And so he needs to create the chaos and turmoil on his phrases. He doesn’t need anyone else’s phrases … he needs it on his phrases,” Christie mentioned on ABC’s “This Week.”

“However take a look at the top, being indicted, by no means helps anyone,” he mentioned, amid some lawmakers speculating that Trump’s authorized woes rev up his base.

Trump, who’s working for president in 2024, mentioned on Saturday that he thinks he’ll be arrested on Tuesday as a New York grand jury probes the alleged hush-money scheme that got here amid his 2016 presidential run.

In a Fact Social put up on Saturday, Trump indicated that he can be arrested on Tuesday after which urged his helps to “protest, take our nation again!”

Christie on Sunday mentioned he anticipates folks will take this investigation “much less significantly” than others into Trump as a result of they “know probably the most” about it.

“I don’t assume there’s many Individuals who don’t imagine that Donald Trump had an affair with Stormy Daniels, and that don’t imagine that he paid her cash on the finish of the marketing campaign to maintain it quiet. So I don’t assume that the American folks most likely see this as an enormous crime,” Christie mentioned.

“However the imaginative and prescient of a former president of the United States being processed, fingerprinted, mugshot-ed — you already know, what else can we anticipate Trump to say … than to say it helps his marketing campaign? However being indicted, I don’t assume it ever helps anyone.”

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