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New Jersey governor, and former GOP presidential candidate, Chris Christie said today that “it’s probably against the law” for a political campaign to receive opposition research from a foreign country.
Christie did caveat his comments, first reported by the Associated Press, by saying that there’s no evidence as of yet that the Trump campaign received such research.
Still, Christie’s comments are not helpful to the Trump party line that there was nothing illegal about what Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort were doing by agreeing to meet with Russian government officials in June of 2016 in order to receive opposition research on Hillary Clinton.
By Christie’s logic, Trump Jr, Kushner and Manafort “probably” agreed to break the law.
Now, what is Chris Christie’s game? First, he has little allegiance to Trump, who dumped Christie as the lead of the Trump transition after Jared Kushner allegedly complained. Christie previously sent Kushner’s father to jail.
Which takes us to our second point, this could be Christie’s revenge best served cold. Christie may be making a dig at Kushner, by raising the possible illegality of Kushner’s actions in attending this meeting.
Of course, Trump’s own son attended the meeting as well, and responded “I love it” when told that the Russian government wanted to help Trump win the election and had information to share.
But that takes us back to point 1: Christie may no longer have much love for Trump, who dumped Christie after the New Jersey governor had risked his reputation by supporting Trump during the campaign. Who can forget Chris Christie’s hostage video from March of 2016:
Trump owed Christie, bigly. And dumped him. And today, Christie got his revenge.
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