Donald Trump calls Chris Christie ‘sloppy’ and says he got here in final in fourth GOP debate

Former President Donald Trump slammed former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie for the way he carried out within the fourth GOP presidential debate.

“Sloppy Chris Christie is not fit to run for President,” Mr. Trump wrote on the social media web site X Friday. “… According to all, he came in LAST in the debate, and I came in FIRST, as I have in all of the debates, without even being there.”

Mr. Christie has been Mr. Trump’s most vocal GOP critic all through the 2024 main marketing campaign and has referred to as out the opposite candidates for not mentioning the previous president by identify. He mentioned Mr. Trump shouldn’t be handled like Voldemort or “He-who-shall-not-be-named,” referring to the antagonist within the Harry Potter collection.

He has additionally predicted that Mr. Trump, going through a number of federal and state prosecutions, might be convicted earlier than the 2024 election.

He mentioned at Wednesday evening’s debate in Tuscaloosa, Alabama that Mr. Trump is “unfit” for an additional time period.

“This is a guy who just said this past week that he wants to use the Department of Justice to go after his enemies when he gets in there,” Mr. Christie mentioned. “And the fact of the matter is, he is unfit to be president, and there is no bigger issue in this race … than Donald Trump.”

As with the three earlier candidate debates, Mr. Trump didn’t take part Wednesday evening, and as a substitute opted to do a city corridor interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity on Tuesday in Iowa.