Chris Christie on Donald Trump

and if your leaders are not willing to admit to you that they're fallible that they make mistakes that they hurt like you that they bleed like you and that they suffer disappointments and let Downs beware Beware of the leader in this country who if you have handed leadership to who has never made a mistake who has never done anything wrong when something goes wrong it's always someone else's fault and who has never lost I've lost you people did that to me in 2016. all of you and I have two of my children here tonight who remind me of that all the time they said you're going back to New Hampshire they beat you but Beware of the leader who won't admit any of those shortcomings because you know what the problem is with a leader like that a leader like that thinks America's greatness resides in the mirror he's looking at I believe that America's greatness resides out there among all of you and that any of us who get the opportunity to serve are merely temporary stewards of that greatness who just want an opportunity to make it a little bit greater and if you can't admit to the people you want to lead that you're not going to be perfect and if you decide that the people who you ask to come with you to lead will always be the ones who are blamed when anything goes wrong that they'll be called names that they'll be dismissed and that after they leave your service they're nothing but idiots beware because that leader not only will not serve you they will not be able to find anybody who will serve them and a lonely self-consumed self-serving mirror hog is not a leader and so now we have Pretenders all around us who want to tell you pick me because I'm kind of like what you picked before but not quite as crazy but I don't want to say his name because for these other Pretenders he is for those of you who read the Harry Potter books like Voldemort he is he who shall not be named well let me be clear in case I have not been already person I am talking about who is obsessed with the mirror who never admits a mistake who never admits a fault and who always finds someone else and something else to blame for whatever goes wrong but finds every reason to take credit for anything that goes right is Donald Trump and if we don't have that conversation with you we don't deserve to ask for your vote we don't deserve the mantle of leadership we don't deserve to have you think of us as people worthy of leadership I think if you look at our politics now back in 2015 and 16. I played a conventional game I thought you just do Politics the way you've always done it just talk about yourself don't really worry about anybody else keep your eye on the ball and keep going that's not the politics today you you this time you have to differentiate yourself from the person in the lead and I said this at a town hall I came up here I came up here a couple months ago right here it was a mistake in 2016 not to confront Donald Trump early because I knew that so much of what he said was complete baloney like I knew it I'm going to build the greatest most wonderful wall across the entire Mexico border and Mexico is going to pay for it well like I knew as someone who had governed that that was complete bull but I was like people aren't going to believe that they're not going to believe that mistake but guess what you've got no excuse now he was there for four years two of them were the Republican Congress he got a quarter of the wall built and Mexico has given us our first peso we paid for all of it and only for a quarter of it and when you watch illegal immigration pouring over our Southern border don't wonder whose fault it is it's his it's his fault because he never changed one immigration law in the two years that he had Republican control of the congress not one immigration law did he change he didn't build the wall like he told us to and Mexico is laughing at us at the idea that they were going to pay for a wall on their border and if you listen to him he'll tell you I totally succeeded and now Biden Biden is the reason that you know this is not happening well Biden's made it worse but if the wall was there like he promised us Biden wouldn't be able to be doing this he wouldn't be in office if it wasn't for Trump Joe Biden never beat anybody outside the state of Delaware in 45 years except for one guy Donald J Trump Joe Biden ran for president three times and never won never won anything outside the state of Delaware not once until he ran up against the guy who the American people knew in their heart was full of it and it had enough they had watched the chaos they had watched the disorder they'd watch the disrespect they'd watch the narcissism and the lying for four years and they went you know what the people in the middle said enough we took a chance on him four years ago we're not taking a chance again and so I made a fundamental judgment error I thought that something that was so apparent to me would be apparent to everybody let me guarantee you something I ain't making that mistake this time well of course he is he is you know I love the coverage of me getting ready to run and there's this thing like Christie doesn't really care about winning all he cares about doing is destroying Trump now let me ask you something how are those two things mutually exclusive I mean seriously aren't they inextricably connected the guys ahead in the polls who am I supposed to be worried about Nikki Haley I mean seriously if I came in here tonight and spent 15 minutes railing on Nikki Haley and I've known Nikki for 13 years now we're friends so that's why I'm bringing her up because I know that she will take this in the spirit it's given if I came out here in rails for 15 20 minutes but Nikki Haley you all would leave going is he nuts hasn't he like read the papers does he know Trump's leading the reason I'm going after Trump is twofold one he deserves it and two it's the way to win so these two are not divided and this is what I understand about the coverage right well I hope he's not just going out there to kill no I am going out there let me be very clear I am going out there to take out Donald Trump but here's why I want to win and I don't want him to win and guess what if you put DeSantis and Haley and Pence and Tim Scott that's it I'll stop there on true serum they tell you the same thing here's the difference here's the difference you have to put me on true serum to tell you okay so that's why there are not multiple Lanes to the Republican nomination that is a political science professor's dream there is one lane to the Republican nomination and he's in front of it and if you want to win you better go right through him because let me guarantee you something from knowing him for 22 years everybody he gonna kind of go through me and he's going to try to go through Ron and Nikki and Tim and anybody else who stands in his way and you've watched this show I mean to me this show looks like it's on reruns now this is like watching Seinfeld right we've all seen it and the jokes aren't quite as funny as they were the first time we heard them right so the Mexican wall he's gonna I guarantee you if you haven't been to one of his events yet and you go you will walk out of there thinking Jesus the whole wall was built how did I miss that how I miss it the whole wall was built and you know what Mexico paid for it nobody told me I read the papers every day I missed it I guarantee you'll come out thinking that right eight years ago it was amusing eight years ago you were entertained I forgive you but it ain't funny anymore it's not amusing anymore it's not entertaining anymore it is the last throws of a bitter angry man who wants power back for himself not for you if you think for one minute when he says I am your retribution if you think he wants to be your retribution forget it he's going to be retribution for one person and one person only himself and all the things he's angry about and all the ways he thinks he got snookered well if that's the kind of President you want let me tell you no one can compete with him he's The Runaway winner but if you want somebody who's actually going to fight for you I would suggest you that's not the right choice so I learned a few things

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Length: 11min 22sec (682 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 07 2023