Republican presidential candidate and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie criticized the recent decision to kick former President Trump off the Maine primary ballot under the 14th Amendment.
“[I]t makes him a martyr,” Christie said on CNN Friday. “You know, he’s very good at playing ‘Poor me, poor me,’ he’s always complaining. The poor billionaire from New York who’s spending everybody else’s money to pay his legal fees.”
On Thursday, Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows (D) said she had concluded the former president “over the course of several months and culminating on January 6, 2021, used a false narrative of election fraud to inflame his supporters and direct them to the Capitol to prevent certification of the 2020 election and the peaceful transfer of power.” Bellows’ decision made Maine the second state to take such an action, after the Colorado Supreme Court last week via a 4-3 ruling.
It frankly just doesn’t matter. Either we support the rule of law or we don’t. We can’t just pick and choose, when picking and choosing where justice applies is exactly what we’re trying to stop while we still can.
edit: Christie not understanding this basic idea is related to why he has an R by his name and not a D, incidentally. But at this point I’ll take the allies that come to hand, don’t care too much about letters atm when fascism is marching. Priorities and all. Trump is a Mussolini, and I don’t want to meet his Hitler.
Break the law, get the consequences. Not complicated.