The founding fathers would be "rolling in their graves" to know that former President Donald Trump would have a legitimate chance of being elected president even if he is convicted of serious crimes, said rival candidate and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on CNN Wednesday.
Christie also took a shot at some of his other rivals for their inability to stand up to the former president they are ostensibly running against.
"Let me just ask you, when Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis — do you think one would be a better president, or a least-worst president, than the other?" asked anchor Jake Tapper.
"Not ready to make that call yet. There's a lot more for them to show," said Christie. However, he added, "it's really very discouraging to me that you heard Nikki Haley on the stage say Donald Trump was the right president for the right time and have her say that she was inclined to pardon him, and for Ron DeSantis to say all the supportive things he said about Donald Trump. Both of them raised their hand on the stage in the first debate and said they would support him even if he is a convicted felon."
"George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin are rolling in their graves," Christie continued. "If they knew they would have had the audacity as a felon, which Donald Trump will become this spring, to run for president and other people running for the office would be willing to support someone like that, they would have acted being a convicted felon as a requirement for the presidency. To say you can be the rightful heir of Washington with Washington, Lincoln, FDR, to say I will support a convicted felon gives me great concern about their judgment."
"One last thing, you can't beat him unless you try to beat him," said Christie. "They're continuing to cuddle up to the guy. He's up by 30 points. And so I'm trying to beat him. They're trying to come in a very respectable second. I don't think that's the way to run any race, and I'm not going to run this one that way."
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