Donald Trump’s enemies have a lot to say. They’re always spewing nonsense.
And a noted Trump enemy has let his feelings be known about the president.
Chris Christie has once again aimed his fire at President Donald Trump – This time during a rant on ABC’s This Week.
The segment quickly turned into a familiar exercise in establishment Republican grievance, with Christie casting the president’s every move as personal score-settling rather than the delivery of promises voters demanded.
George Stephanopoulos, the host of the program, set the tone, telling Christie, “I guess one thing you can say for certain, as the president showed this week, is what he cares about most.”
“Yeah, look, it’s revenge. Revenge, revenge. And owning the Justice Department as if it’s his own private law firm, George. And so you start off with the weaponization fund. Here’s what John Cornyn and Thom Tillis thankfully, finally have learned is no deal that Donald Trump gives you with his mouth is ever worth anything,” Christie replied.
“And so why didn’t they go to a writing to get rid of the weaponization of funds and maybe some degree of the immunity he’s getting and his family from the IRS? Because Trump was waiting for plans to get confirmed, and that he was going to enforce the written deal that he had, and Blanche knew it. And that’s why Blanche wouldn’t put it in writing, because the president wouldn’t be permitted to, because he doesn’t work for us.”
That lengthy monologue captured the essence of Christie’s complaint.
He wants the public to believe that any verbal understanding reached with the president is worthless, that Trump only honors what appears on paper, and that the Justice Department has been reduced to little more than a personal legal shop.
For a man who once ran for the Republican nomination and still claims the party label, the attack lands with particular force among voters who remember how often the same critics stayed silent when previous administrations bent the system to their own ends.
Christie pressed the point further:
“He said it very clearly in a real Freudian moment when he said, I’m his lawyer. I mean, oh, I was his lawyer. He’s still his lawyer. The Justice Department is Donald Trump’s professional legal firm. That’s what they’re doing for him. And what happened this week in all these other matters as well, is just another indication of that fact.”
The former governor framed recent personnel decisions and policy moves as proof of private loyalty rather than public accountability.
Right-leaning audiences have heard this refrain before. Every time the president moves to clean out holdovers or install people who share his view of the law, the same chorus rises to declare the system captured.
Christie now joins that chorus, portraying the Justice Department’s new direction as evidence of personal service rather than the correction of years of institutional overreach.
Voters who backed Trump precisely because they wanted that correction will recognize the familiar pattern: criticize the methods while ignoring the results the electorate actually sought.
