Now, the former governor of New Jersey is trying to reinvent himself as what he once was – someone who told the truth even when it was uncomfortable for his side.
“January 6 was a riot provoked by Donald Trump in an attempt to intimidate Mike Pence and Congress into doing exactly what he said last week: overturn the election. He wants the election. the election was overturned.”
Based on everything we know about Trump’s actions that day (and in the days before that), Christie’s is accurately describing Trump’s motives and goals.
There is no real argument – especially from Trump – that he believes then-Vice President Mike Pence could (and should) have turned down electors from several states.
“I was right and everyone knows it,” Trump said in a recent statement from his Save America PAC. “If there is fraud or large-scale irregularities, it would be appropriate to send those votes back to the legislature to find it. Dems and RINOs want to grab that immediately. A huge opportunity missed. lost, but not forever, in the meantime Our Country is about to go to hell!”
And it’s also no wonder that Trump relies heavily on Pence – until January 6 – to change his mind.
With all that in mind, it’s worth noting that Christie is in the decidedly minority of her party when it comes to the truth of what happened on January 6 and why.
Those facts are truly indisputable. (And this is before we see the report from the House Select Committee tasked with investigating what happened that day at the Capitol.)
Christie’s statement to Hewitt should not be particularly valuable given what we know about that day. And it is.
The point: Republicans categorically deny a staged attack on our democracy. The fact that Christie is the exception rather than the rule in his party is positive proof of that fact.
