Chris Christie thinks Jared Kushner may not have been completely honest when testifying about Trump’s failed election coup

Last week, New York Times report that Jared Kushner testified before a federal grand jury investigation Donald Trumptried to overturn the 2020 election, and when he did, the first son-in-law apparently suggested that “Mr. Trump really believes the election was stolen.” Such a request is important because federal prosecutors, headed by special counsel Jack Smith, appears to be trying to determine whether Trump knows his efforts to stay in power are based on lies—and while the federals don’t need, for example, a video of Trump saying, “Let’s look at me, breaking the law” to charge him, their case would be made significantly stronger if, like time note, “they may present evidence that the respondent knows that there is no legal or factual basis for the claim but continues to make it.” In other words, in testifying that he himself understood that Trump really thought the 2020 election was stolen from him, Kushner did a big sure thing for his father-in-law and any excuses. What potential said father-in-law’s attorneys can offer. But at least one person has suggested that Kushner’s testimony may not be entirely outrageous.

In an interview with ABC on Sunday, former Trump ally turned 2024 GOP opponent Chris Christie speak George Stephanopoulos“[Trump] don’t believe he won. He was worried before the election that he was going to lose, and I know it because he said it directly to me. So, you know, he knew he didn’t win. But his ego, George, does not allow him to believe that he is the only person in America, outside of Delaware, who has ever lost. Joe Biden. And so his ego is running that. And am I surprised that Jared Kushner said that? He didn’t want to be denied Thanksgiving, George, so he said what needed to be said.”

Of course, Christie and Kushner have a long history together that dates back to the early 2000s, when the former – then a federal prosecutor – persuaded a jury to put the latter’s father in jail because illegal campaign contributions, tax evasion and testifying. fake. (The allegation of witness tampering is the result of Charles Kushnerdecided to get revenge on her sister’s husband for collaborating with the federal government, by hiring a prostitute to seduce him, filming the encounter, and then sending the tape to his sister.) Jared didn’t seem to mind. never forgave Christie for this and in April 2016, according to Christie’s memoir, Kushner “begged[ed] with his father-in-law to not appoint Christie as transitional president,” and implied that Christie, in prosecuting her father, had “acted unethically and inappropriately” without presenting substantiated evidence. for those statements. According to Christie, Kushner tried to argue that when it comes to sex tapes and blackmail, such things are “family affairs.”[s]problem[s] handled by the family or by rabbis. (Trump later pardoned Charles Kushner in one of his last acts as president.)

Anyway, as it happens, there are some who, unlike Jared, have said that Trump 100% knew he was going to lose the election. Former White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin, because one person, allegedly told prosecutors this spring that Trump, in the days after the 2020 election, asked her, “Can you believe I lost to Joe Biden?” While recounting the same story to the committee on January 6, she said: “At the time, I think he knew he had lost.” And in his own testimony before the same panel, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark A. Milley, said during a meeting in the Oval Office in late November or early December 2020, Trump accepted that he had lost the election. “He said things like, ‘Yes, we lost, we need to leave that to the next guy,'” Milley said, adding: “You mean President Biden.” As Milley told the House panel: “The whole gist of the conversation was—and it lasted—that meeting could last an hour or so—that made a lot of sense. He is calm. It’s nothing—the subject we’re talking about is a very serious one, but everything looks normal to me. But I remember him saying that.”

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