'Who would work for him?' Chris Christie explains why Trump's second term would be an unprecedented debacle
Chris Christie warned that Donald Trump would be unable to push through any of the policies that voters might support because his second presidency would be even more chaotic than the first.
The former New Jersey governor and current Republican presidential candidate pledged he would not vote for Trump should he win the GOP nomination, telling MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that the ex-president had proven himself incapable of executing his duties and serving the interests of the public.
"I don't want him to be president, so yeah — I mean, the fact is he is a guy who has shown over the course of time, and even more particularly I'd say, Mike, in his post-presidency, that he is detached from reality in this respect," Christie said. "He continues to say, and he said this the other day in response to a question when [Fox News anchor] Bret Baier asked him, how are you winning back the suburban women voters you lost in 2020 to Joe Biden? He said, first off, 'I didn't lose in 2020,' so we don't need a candidate as Republicans who is going to continue to look backwards and try to re-fight the 2020 election. Even in the race he won in 2016, he's trying to re-fight the Nevada election. Imagine saying in that interview yesterday in Nevada, he called it a disgraceful state. Well, that's an interesting approach to try to win their electoral votes 'By the way, you people are disgraceful, vote for me, please.' I mean, this guy is only about him, only about him. To the extent he ever does anything going forward that's positive for the country, it's coincidental."
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Christie recognized that many GOP voters like what Trump has proposed for a possible second term, but he saw little chance he could carry out those policies.
"Folks say, 'I know he's not a good guy, but I like his policies,'" Christie said. "If you do like those policies, and there's some I like and agree with, why would you ever hire him to execute them? He can't. He has shown he is unable to execute these policies. By the way, who is going to work for him? I thought, Joe, you and I had an interesting back-and-forth on Twitter about this a couple weeks ago, where we went through the things he's called, the people who worked for him, calling Bill Barr a disgusting pig, you know, saying Rex Tillerson is dumb as a rock and lazy as hell, calling Gen. Mattis overrated, after calling him the greatest general since George Patton when he hired him."
"If he were to win, who would occupy these positions for him?" Christie added. "I remember when he first hired Mark Meadows, he told me that this was the next Jim Baker. Now Mark Meadows is cooperating against him in a criminal investigation. I wonder if he still thinks he is Jim Baker. I suspect he doesn't. So all these things create problems, and that's why I think it's impossible for Republicans ultimately, if they want to win the election in November against Joe Biden, which I think is vital for us to do for the future of the country, they can't nominate Donald Trump. That's the argument to be made. I can't tell you today whether it is a winning or losing argument, that's why we have campaigns and that's why we have elections."
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