Former President Donald Trump will no longer refer to Hillary Clinton as “Crooked Hillary,” he said during a bizarre campaign stop in New Hampshire.
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Donald Trump made “Crooked Hillary” her nickname in the wake of the scandal over her homebrew email server that was found by the FBI to have contained classified information.
Now the former Secretary of State, First Lady, and U.S. senator is being called “Beautiful Hillary” by the former president.
Trump’s own alleged mishandling of classified information has added a degree of irony to his prior monicker of Hillary Clinton.
“I’m gonna give her a new name—I don’t know, maybe ‘Lovely’ Hillary or ‘Beautiful’ Hillary,” Trump said in April.
Now that “crooked” name is reserved for Joe Biden.
“Out of respect for the office of president, I didn’t talk this way five or six weeks ago. I knew. I felt very badly,” Trump said. “He’s a crooked person. He’s a totally dishonest guy, so I would say things. But we even changed his name. I even took it away from Hillary, and we call him ‘Crooked Joe’ instead of ‘Sleepy Joe’ we called him ‘Crooked Joe.’”
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Trump then turned on his former friend, Chris Christie, on whose advice he appointed his former Bridgegate attorney Christopher Wray to head the FBI.
“Christie’s eating right now. Sir, please do not call him a fat pig. It’s disrespectful. You can’t do it. You can’t do that,” Trump said.
Trump continued: “I’m sure Chris would have been very happy with my defense of him!”
Christie Hits Back at Trump, Says He is in ‘Crazyland’
“If you had the guts you would show up to the debate and say it to my face,” Christie tweeted on Tuesday night.
Christie shot back during an appearance on CBS News, saying that he and Donald Trump were “moving in different directions.”
“In two months, I have gone from zero to 11. In a month and a half, he’s gone from 48 to 34. That means two-thirds of the Republican voters as polled right now don’t want him,” Christie said. “He is spending most of his money on legal fees. I am not. I am out there campaigning … He can’t sustain it, and he’s ripping people off. This is a grift.”
Trump betrayed their friendship, Christie said.
“He left me; I didn’t leave him,” Christie remarked. “He kept moving further and further into crazy land.”
The New York indictment is flawed legally. Whether Trump committed a criminal act or not is irrelevant in Christie’s view, because paying off Stormy Daniels was unethical. Taking classified documents with him to Mar-a-Lago is likewise a serious violation, the former New Jersey governor said. He argues that Trump lacks the needed character to be president.
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Christie also has come out against the former president in connection with the latest January 6 indictment noting that Mike Pence has said that Trump pressured him to reverse the outcome of the 2020 election.
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He told CNN’s Anderson Cooper that he believes that Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows has already turned on the former president and likely is cooperating with the grand jury.
“[I believe his] testimony could be the worst for him outside of the family members,” Christie said. “Mark Meadows was with him constantly during that time.
Christie continued: “He was a very involved chief of staff from my experience. He made sure he was in every meeting.”
John Rossomando is a defense and counterterrorism analyst and served as Senior Analyst for Counterterrorism at The Investigative Project on Terrorism for eight years. His work has been featured in numerous publications such as The American Thinker, The National Interest, National Review Online, Daily Wire, Red Alert Politics, CNSNews.com, The Daily Caller, Human Events, Newsmax, The American Spectator, TownHall.com, and Crisis Magazine. He also served as senior managing editor of The Bulletin, a 100,000-circulation daily newspaper in Philadelphia, and received the Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors first-place award for his reporting.
