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GOFFSTOWN, N.H. – Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie heavily criticized Donald Trump’s praise last month of Vladimir Putin when the former president called the Russian leader a “genius” and “savvy” in launching the deadly invasion of neighboring Ukraine.
In a speech in New Hampshire on Monday, Christie asked “do we want to send admiring words to someone [Putin] who as we speak this morning is directing the slaughter of women and children in the Ukraine without any conscience?”
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And the former two-term Republican governor emphasized that “words matter everybody. Words matter. And those words from people of our party who called him [Putin] ‘genius’ and ‘very savvy’ are being replayed over and over again in Russian television to justify and prop up a dictator who is sending his soldiers to slaughter in Ukraine.”
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaks at ‘Politics and Eggs’ at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College, on March 21, 2022 in Goffstown, N.H. The speaking series is a must stop for White House hopefuls visiting the state that holds the first primary in the presidential nominating calendar.
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Christie, a 2016 GOP presidential candidate who’s mulling another run, made his comments as he headlined the first edition of ‘Politics and Eggs’ in the 2024 election cycle. The speaking series at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College over the past two decades has become a must stop for White House hopefuls visiting the state that for a century’s held the first primary in the presidential nominating calendar.
And in a national exclusive interview with Fox News minutes after the event, Christie was even more blunt regarding Trump’s comments.
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“I think those remarks are…
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