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Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a longtime ally of President Donald Trump, said that the president’s legal battle over the election results has reached the point of “national embarrassment” and that it’s time for the president to move on.
“Quite frankly, the conduct of the president’s legal team has been a national embarrassment,” Christie said during an interview on ABC’s “This Week.” He pointed to Trump lawyer Sidney Powell’s various claims about voter fraud for which she has been “unwilling to go on TV and defend and lay out the evidence that she supposedly has.”
“This is outrageous conduct by any lawyer,” he said, adding that Trump’s team often discusses election fraud “outside the courtroom, but when they go inside the courtroom they don’t plead fraud and they don’t argue fraud.”
Noting that he voted for Trump, Christie said “elections have consequences, and we cannot continue to act as if something happened here that didn’t happen.”
“You have an obligation to present the evidence,” he said. “The evidence has not been presented. And you must conclude as [Fox News host] Tucker Carlson even concluded the other night that if you’re unwilling to come forward and present the evidence, it must mean the evidence doesn’t exist.”
Christie’s comments come after a federal judge in Pennsylvania eviscerated the Trump campaign’s latest legal effort, dismissing it and saying it was premised on a “strained legal argument without merit.”
