Chris Christie slams Donald Trump as ‘one-man crime wave’

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie ripped former President Donald Trump Thursday, calling the 2024 Republican presidential front-runner a “one-man crime wave” as he faces new federal charges in the classified documents investigation.

Christie, also a Republican candidate for president and former Trump ally, made the comments during a podcast interview with “Pod Save America” that aired as special counsel Jack Smith filed a superseding indictment against the 77-year-old.

Podcast host Jon Lovett, a former speechwriter for President Barack Obama, asked Christie during the interview if he had “ever heard of someone facing between four and six trials within a few months for different legal issues?”

“No, usually, folks like this commit discrete crimes and wind up having one trial,” Christie quipped.

“This guy has been a one-man crime wave,” the former governor went on. “Look, he’s earned every one of them. If you look at it, every one of these is self-inflicted.”

Christie later suggested that some of the criminal cases against Trump were based on “prosecutorial judgement and discretion in some respects that are questionable.”

“But what I say to people all the time is, whether you agree or disagree with the prosecutors, look at the underlying conduct,” Christie added.

He asked listeners to consider whether the alleged behavior was “appropriate for someone who wants to be president of the United States.”

Trump was accused in Thursday’s filing of asking a Mar-a-Lago staffer to delete surveillance footage to conceal evidence that he was keeping documents from federal investigators. He is also at risk of a federal indictment in connection with his efforts to overturn the 2020 election and the Jan. 6. 2021, Capitol riot. 

The former president was indicted in March for allegedly altering business records to hide payment to porn star Stormy Daniels. The money, distributed by Trump’s then-lawyer Michael Cohen, was meant to keep Daniels quiet during the 2016 presidential campaign about an alleged sexual encounter between her and Trump a decade earlier.

Keeping track of all of Trump’s indictments

Former President Donald J. Trump is expecting charges in relation to the federal investigation of the January 6, 2020, Capitol Riot. Here are all of the legal troubles Trump will face as he heads toward the 2024 election.

January 6th

• Attorneys for former President Donald Trump have been told to expect him to be indicted in connection to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack.

• Trump’s lawyers met with prosecutors from special counsel Jack Smith’s office at the Justice Department on Thursday morning.

• He could face charges of conspiracy, civil rights violations, and obstruction of justice following a Justice Department investigation into his actions before and on Jan. 6, 2021.

Mar-a-Lago classified docs

• Trump is the first former president to receive a federal indictment.

• Trump is accused of taking around 11,000 documents, some containing sensitive national security secrets, and hoarding them in a haphazard manner at his Palm Beach, Florida estate.

Stormy Daniel’s ‘hush money’

• Trump was indicted by a New York grand jury in March over ‘hush money’ payments to porn star Stormy Daniels during the 2016 campaign.
• The former president is accused of falsifying business records in connection with the payments
• Trump’s then-lawyer Michael Cohen paid Daniels $130,000 in exchange for her silence about a sexual encounter she claimed the two had.
• Trump pleaded not guilty to the charges and is trying to have the case moved to federal court.

NY AG’s Tax Fraud suit

• New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a $250 million civil suit against former president Donald Trump and his Trump org. for unpaid taxes
• The lawsuit seeks to ban Trump and his three eldest children — Don Jr., Ivanka, and Eric — from conducting further business in New York, as well as a $250 million fine.
• The Trial is set for October.

Trump was slapped with 37 federal charges in June for purportedly keeping about 11,000 government documents, including those related to sensitive national security matters, on the property of his Mar-a-Lago, Fla., estate – including in a bathroom. 

A Trump spokesperson called the new charges “nothing more than a continued desperate and flailing attempt” by the Biden administration “to harass President Trump and those around him” and to influence the 2024 presidential race.

With Post wires.