Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie appeared on The View on Wednesday and mentioned he wouldn’t pardon former President Donald Trump if elected.
Fortunately, Christie is barely polling at about three %.
Through the interview, co-host Pleasure Behar famous that presidential candidates Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis mentioned they’d pardon Trump and requested him if he would do the identical.
“No, no, no, no,” Christie replied earlier than she had even completed asking the query.
The previous New Jersey governor claimed that he didn’t assist a pardon as a result of Trump has not accepted “responsibility for anything he did.”
“As a governor, I issued pardons,” Christie mentioned. “And one of the things you have to do is look at the person. The person has to accept responsibility for what they did. Do you think Donald Trump will ever accept responsibility for anything he did?”
Christie mentioned that capturing down a pardon for the previous president could be the “easiest pardon decision.”
“It’d be really the easiest pardon decision I would ever have to make as president,” Christie mentioned. “You don’t accept responsibility? Too bad. Go to jail.”
Pleasure Behar: “If you became president, would you pardon him (Trump)?”
Chris Christie: “No. It would be the easiest pardon decision I’d ever have to make as president.” pic.twitter.com/EmBnUnU0If
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Trump is at present going through 4 felony indictments for a complete of 91 expenses.
Regardless of the lawfare being deployed towards him, Trump is the frontrunner for the Republican nomination by a landslide.
Christie additionally informed NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo that he wouldn’t pardon Trump within the mishandling of labeled paperwork case throughout an interview in July.
“Let’s say with the documents case — which is the only one that the president would have jurisdiction over. Given what’s alleged in the indictment, if that were proven, and … the former president were found guilty, as long as I thought he got a fair trial … I would have a hard time considering any pardon.”
“And by the way, as you know, to get a pardon, you have to also accept responsibility for what you did,” the previous governor continued. “I doubt very highly that Donald Trump would ever do that. And so I can’t imagine a pardon being issued.”
