{"id":108338,"date":"2025-08-25T07:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T07:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/108338\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T07:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T07:31:09","slug":"donald-trump-threatens-to-investigate-chris-christie-after-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/108338\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump Threatens To Investigate Chris Christie after Criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tDonald Trump<\/a> threatened to investigate Chris Christie<\/a> after the former New Jersey governor criticized him on ABC\u2019s This Week<\/a> earlier on Sunday. <\/p>\n

\n\tTrump wrote on Truth Social, \u201cI just watched Sloppy Chris Christie be interviewed on a ratings challenged \u2018News\u2019 Show, \u2018This Week With George Slopadopolus,\u2019 on ABC Fake News (By the way, what the \u2018hell happened to Jonathan Karl\u2019s hair? He looks absolutely terrible! It\u2019s amazing what bad ratings, on a failed television show that was forced to pay me $16,000,000, can do to one\u2019s appearance!). Can anyone believe anything that Sloppy Chris says? Do you remember the way he lied about the dangerous and deadly closure of the George Washington Bridge in order to stay out of prison, at the same time sacrificing people who worked for him, including a young mother, who spent years trying to fight off the vicious charges against her. Chris refused to take responsibility for these criminal acts. For the sake of JUSTICE, perhaps we should start looking at that very serious situation again? NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DJT\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tTrump\u2019s comments came two days after the FBI raided the home of John Bolton, Trump\u2019s former national security adviser who, like Christie, has criticized the president in media appearances. Like Bolton, Christie is a former supporter of Trump\u2019s.<\/p>\n

\n\tOn This Week, Christie expressed skepticism of Ghislaine Maxwell, convicted of sex trafficking and conspiring with Jeffrey Epstein, in questioning by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche. The transcript of the Maxwell interview was released on Friday, in which she said of Trump, \u201cAs far as I\u2019m concerned, President Trump was always very cordial and very kind to me. And I just want to say that I find \u2014 I admire his extraordinary achievement in becoming the president now. And I like him. And I\u2019ve always liked him.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMaxwell also said that she did not hear from Epstein that Trump did anything inappropriate.<\/p>\n

\n\tChristie said, \u201cWhy should we believe a damn thing Ghislaine Maxwell has to say about anyone? Now, that doesn\u2019t make Donald Trump guilty of anything. In fact, in my own experience \u2026 I don\u2019t think Donald Trump had anything to do with \u2014 with Jeffrey Epstein that was untoward or illegal. But we\u2019re going to believe Ghislaine Maxwell? Give me a break.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Bolton raid reportedly had to do with his handling of classified information. While Christie said that the fact that two judges signed off on a search warrant suggested that \u201cthere\u2019s real evidence that they believe something is there,\u201d he thinks \u201cit\u2019s kind of funny to hear the president talk the way he does about Bolton and classified information, yet when he had the classified information, the same rules didn\u2019t apply.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tChristie said Trump was following through on his campaign promises to seek retribution. \u201cHe told you he was going to do this, that he was going to have a Justice Department that acted as his personal legal representation, and that is what they\u2019re doing,\u201d Christie said.<\/p>\n

\n\tChristie\u2019s political career was on the rise until the so-called Bridgegate scandal, in which Fort Lee, NJ toll lanes were closed during morning rush hour, a move that was suspected of being an act of political revenge because the city\u2019s mayor had not endorsed Christie\u2019s reelection bid. He was not indicted, but some of his aides were. Bridget Anne Kelly, Christie\u2019s deputy chief of staff, was convicted, but that was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

\n\tAt the time Kelly\u2019s conviction was overturned, in 2020, Trump congratulated Christie and wrote on Twitter that it was \u201ca complete and total exoneration (with a 9-0 vote by the U.S. Supreme Court) on the Obama DOJ Scam referred to as \u2018Bridgegate.\u2019 The Democrats are getting caught doing very evil things, and Republicans should take note. This was grave misconduct by the Obama Justice Department!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump threatened to investigate Chris Christie after the former New Jersey governor criticized him on ABC\u2019s This…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[9257,23,71304,12,5109,3,71305,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-108338","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-abc-news","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-chris-christie","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-electionline","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-this-week","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}