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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sun Aug 28, 2016, 11:14 AM Aug 2016

Trump flunky Christie: Clinton ‘should be ashamed of herself’ for bringing race into this election

Heedless of GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump describing Mexicans as “rapists” and calling for a ban on Muslims entering the U.S., Trump surrogate Chris Christie pointed the finger at former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for injecting race into the campaign season.

Appearing on ABC’s This Week with host Martha Raddatz on Sunday morning, the New Jersey governor lashed out at Clinton for her speech earlier in the week when she attacked Trump’s courtship of white supremacists and the so-called “alt-right” which traffics in blatant bigotry.

Asked by Raddatz if Trump was correct in returning fire by calling Clinton a “bigot,” Christie neatly sidestepped the question and hammered Clinton for unfairly pointing out the obvious. “I’ll tell you this. This type of discourse in the campaign is just unwarranted, but it was started by Mrs. Clinton,” Christie insisted. “Mrs. Clinton has started the idea of calling Donald Trump those type of names, and the fact is that once you are the person, and Mrs. Clinton is the person, who injected this type of commentary into this race you can’t then sit back and start complaining about it or have some of your handmaidens in the media complain about it.”

“The fact is she’s been the person who started this type of conversation in the campaign,” he continued. “She should be ashamed of herself.”



http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/trump-flunky-chris-christie-clinton-should-be-ashamed-of-herself-for-bringing-race-into-this-election/
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Trump flunky Christie: Clinton ‘should be ashamed of herself’ for bringing race into this election (Original Post) DonViejo Aug 2016 OP
This from a person daligirrl Aug 2016 #1
So, the race she shouldn't have brought to the campaign... Cracklin Charlie Aug 2016 #2
WOW.....Even Trump's supporters can't listen to him whistler162 Aug 2016 #3
It was months ago that tRump said "My African American, there he is" at a rally. . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2016 #4
Months ago tRump claimed an American citizen couldn't judge impartially cause of Mexican-born parent Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2016 #5
Speaking of "handmaidens in the media complaining about it" ... desi Aug 2016 #6
Didn't Trump accuse Hillary of being a bigot before she gave that speech? oberliner Aug 2016 #7
This message was self-deleted by its author hedda_foil Aug 2016 #11
tRump toutes racist stereotypes of blacks & poverty and Clinton is bringing race into discussion? uponit7771 Aug 2016 #8
Chris Christie is a laughing stock. Blue Idaho Aug 2016 #9
Christie's fawning behavior is actually consistent with his authoritarian personality. hedda_foil Aug 2016 #12
Rudy G I would think also oberliner Aug 2016 #15
That guy is just insane. Blue Idaho Aug 2016 #22
Non sequitur alert! grossproffit Aug 2016 #10
HAHAHAHAHAHA! DetlefK Aug 2016 #13
When youre real desperate and you call someone a bigot, you deserve to get SummerSnow Aug 2016 #14
Classic bully matt819 Aug 2016 #16
My brother called him this, and now I can never not see it: SwankyXomb Aug 2016 #17
Now I can't stop laughing bravenak Aug 2016 #23
Christie knows where it is all going the same as he knew what his Wash. state Desk Jet Aug 2016 #18
Wait. Wut???? lillypaddle Aug 2016 #19
WHAT DOG WHISTLES??? pansypoo53219 Aug 2016 #20
What's with the repeated "MRS" Clinton -- not former Secretary or Senator karynnj Aug 2016 #21

Cracklin Charlie

(12,904 posts)
2. So, the race she shouldn't have brought to the campaign...
Sun Aug 28, 2016, 11:29 AM
Aug 2016

Was the white race?

It would have been fine with him if she had disparaged blacks, Latino, Muslims, etc. How dare she mention the fact that Assface's campaign is a recruiting operation for white supremes.

Where is your dignity, Gov. Christie? Did you leave it on that bridge?

 

whistler162

(11,155 posts)
3. WOW.....Even Trump's supporters can't listen to him
Sun Aug 28, 2016, 11:34 AM
Aug 2016

or the did Monday thru Thursday speeches of Trump never happen?

desi

(1,489 posts)
6. Speaking of "handmaidens in the media complaining about it" ...
Sun Aug 28, 2016, 11:40 AM
Aug 2016

wonder if there was a full size mirror handy? ...

Response to oberliner (Reply #7)

uponit7771

(90,339 posts)
8. tRump toutes racist stereotypes of blacks & poverty and Clinton is bringing race into discussion?
Sun Aug 28, 2016, 11:45 AM
Aug 2016

You can't make this shit up !!!

Blue Idaho

(5,049 posts)
9. Chris Christie is a laughing stock.
Sun Aug 28, 2016, 11:57 AM
Aug 2016

He has managed to make himself completely irrelevant as a politician. He has become nothing more than a fawning toadie and that image will haunt the rest of his political career.

hedda_foil

(16,374 posts)
12. Christie's fawning behavior is actually consistent with his authoritarian personality.
Sun Aug 28, 2016, 12:41 PM
Aug 2016

He's the top bully until he meets up with an even bigger bully. Then he becomes a loyal stooge of the top bully. He'll still beat up those beneath him, but will do it in the name of his boss.

It's the old kiss up kick down thing.

Blue Idaho

(5,049 posts)
22. That guy is just insane.
Sun Aug 28, 2016, 04:27 PM
Aug 2016

I think Rudy has some serious mental health issues. When this election is over the guys in the white coats will be chasing him down with a butterfly net.

SummerSnow

(12,608 posts)
14. When youre real desperate and you call someone a bigot, you deserve to get
Sun Aug 28, 2016, 12:54 PM
Aug 2016

called on the carpet for it. Now you don't like it cause she exposed his bigotry , past, present and future.

matt819

(10,749 posts)
16. Classic bully
Sun Aug 28, 2016, 01:03 PM
Aug 2016

She started it!

I guess we know the answer to the questions, have you no decency, have you no shame?

Wash. state Desk Jet

(3,426 posts)
18. Christie knows where it is all going the same as he knew what his
Sun Aug 28, 2016, 03:20 PM
Aug 2016

chances were before he entered the republican race for the candidacy. Before he jumped in he said ,he doesn't know where it's all going but he's going to give it a whirl. He practically admitted he knew the odds were stacked up against him or that he was facing impossible odds. But what he was avoiding all along the way was facing the truth in New Jersey. So his campaign was a way out of facing up to the massive pile up of all that had come down the pike as the saying goes.

If there was a back door Christie could step out of in secret of course, he would make the great escape -walking or running away from Trump. But he can't do that because Trump owns Christie.Aside from that he has no place to run or hide. And he has no better offers or a better deal elsewhere. Stick a fork in that? Trump will do that in the final act. Actually they are all going to fry burnt but good.

Christie thought he was on the ground floor of something good when he sold himself out.But now he sees every time he turns around ,Trump picks up one outcast after another .Even Christie doesn't understand why it is nobody seems to want to connect up the dots.

Trump is assembling all the pariahs ,it all adds up to implosion - The great vindictive assembly.
Trump believes the GOP disrespected him and for that he seeks revenge.



This guy got there early ,that's why he says, he got the seat directly behind Trump.That lie was pre-arranged same as that seat was.



They just can't see it and Trump knows it ,or they don't want to- see it for what it is so they won't,and Trump knows that.

It is not about what they cannot see,it is about what they will not see or realize.

karynnj

(59,503 posts)
21. What's with the repeated "MRS" Clinton -- not former Secretary or Senator
Sun Aug 28, 2016, 04:03 PM
Aug 2016

When was the last time you heard someone reference Guiliani without the honorific mayor or Kissinger without the honorific Secretary. Trump has NO similar title because he never earned one.

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