Chris Christie calls Trump’s claim of not knowing E. Jean Carroll ‘ridiculous’
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Former New Jersey GOP Gov. Chris Christie continued his feud with Donald Trump on Wednesday, calling the former president’s claim of not knowing who E. Jean Carroll was “ridiculous.”
Christie’s statement comes after Trump was ordered on Tuesday to pay roughly $5 million in damages after a nine-person New York jury handed down the verdict that he was liable for sexual abuse and defamation of Carroll. On social media, Trump claimed the verdict was a “disgrace” and said he had “absolutely no idea who this woman is.”
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“His response yesterday to me was ridiculous, that he didn’t even know the woman,” Christie said on Fox News.
“I mean, how many coincidences are we going to have here with Donald Trump? He must be the unluckiest S.O.B. in the world. He just has random people he’s never met before who are able to convince a jury that he sexually abused them. It’s one person after another, one woman after another.”
The verdict came down roughly six months after Trump announced his candidacy for the 2024 presidential election. Christie stated that this verdict is not a “silver bullet” to end Trump’s candidacy, but he said the verdict is “additional weight.”
“Everybody who gets involved in politics gets targeted,” Christie said. “Donald Trump is trying to act like, you know, he’s the first person this has ever happened to. It’s not.”
Christie has not yet announced if he will run for president in 2024, but he did say on May 3 that he will make a decision on his candidacy “in the next two weeks.” Previously, he ran for president in the 2016 election, but Trump ultimately won the GOP nomination.
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Entrepreneur and GOP presidential nominee Vivek Ramaswamy, one of several candidates competing against Trump for the GOP 2024 nomination, came to the defense of Trump after the verdict, claiming it was the “establishment’s anaphylactic response against its chief political allergen.” Similarly, Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel predicted the verdict would not hurt Trump’s chances in 2024.
On Wednesday night, Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence are set to compete in evening television, with Trump holding a town hall on CNN and Pence appearing on Sean Hannity’s Fox News TV show. Trump and CNN previously announced the town hall event for 8 p.m. at St. Anselm College in New Hampshire, and a Pence spokesman confirmed Wednesday afternoon that the former vice president would appear on Hannity at 9 p.m., just one hour after Trump’s event.