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Mega-egoist Chris Christie says Fani Willis's "ego" is why Trump faces 13 felony counts in Georgia [1]
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Date: 2023-08-24
It takes an egoist like Chris Christie to project that District Attorney Fani Willis’s “ego” is why Donald Trump has been indicted on 13 felony counts by the Fulton County grand jury.
Newsweek: Christie, who is running for president, described the latest indictment as "unnecessary" during an interview with Fox News on Tuesday [August 15, 2023]. “I think that this conflict is essentially covered by the federal indictment, not with the level of detail that they covered in [the Fulton County indictment], but that's just a stylistic thing… So I think this was unnecessary, as to Donald Trump. … I'm sure [Special Counsel Jack Smith] wanted [District Attorney Fani Willis] to defer. She chose not to. … This is probably an ego decision, where she said, 'Well, hell, I put all this time and effort into this investigation, and I want something out of it.'”
Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis
Christie wants the mainstream media and voters to think of him as a “truthteller” in the Republican presidential primaries — though there would be nothing remarkable about Christie questioning the electability and behavior of a twice-impeached primary competitor who’s facing 91 felony counts but for the fact that most Republican politicians including Christie obsequiously supported Trump throughout his first term — and now Christie won’t tell the simple truth that the Fulton County D.A.’s office was just doing its job by investigating Trump and others whom the grand jury has charged with multiple criminal violations of Georgia state law. Christie says he’s certain that Jack Smith wanted Fani Willis to drop the case against Trump, even though Christie has, of course, zero evidence to back up this assertion.
Perhaps Christie’s unable with his supersized ego to wrap his head around the idea that public servants might do their jobs to serve the public not to feed their egos.
WHYY (2019): “There’s nothing else [besides the presidency] I want to run for. I couldn’t imagine myself in the United States Senate. I’d rather commit suicide than be in the United States Senate, when the greatest part of your day is, ‘Oh my bill just got marked up in the subcommittee,’” [Christie] said, eliciting chuckles from the audience.
In other words, the halls of Congress just aren’t wide enough for his inflated ego to fit through. As governor, he infamously put his own interests above the public interest.
BBC (2016): New Jersey Governor Chris Christie laughed about his staff closing part of a bridge in 2013 over a mayor who refused to endorse him, a court heard. ... Mr Wildstein, who worked at the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, said he and his boss, Bill Baroni, told Mr Christie that Mark Sokolich, the mayor of Fort Lee, was "frustrated" over the lane closures. Mr Christie allegedly laughed and responded in a sarcastic tone: "I would imagine that he wouldn't be getting his phone calls returned."
Indeed, as I've posted about previously, Christie has time and again demonstrated his disdain for the electorate in general, for workers, for minorities, and for women.
Public servants like Fani Willis and Jack Smith take their duty to uphold the law seriously, and they serve as models of integrity.
In stark contrast to those who do neither.
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