Speaking on ABC News’ This Week on Sunday, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie gave his take on the circumstances that led up to the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
Christie responded to a comment from host George Stephanopoulos about a PowerPoint presentation from former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows that detailed how then-President Donald Trump could overturn the results of the 2020 election.
“It seems like, every single day, Chris Christie, we’re learning more about what was going inside the White House in those days leading up to January 6,” Stephanopoulos said. “It may explain why the former President and his allies are working so hard not to cooperate.”
According to Christie, new revelations about the events leading up the riot were “driven from the top.”
“I mean, the president made it very clear that he did not want to concede the election, that he would not concede the election. And you got a bunch of people around him by the time we got to the end, with very few exceptions, that were C-team players, at best, on their best day,” Christie said, adding that the “C-team players” told Trump what he wanted to hear during his last days in the White House.
“There were plenty of people on the outside who were telling him this is over, and you need to concede,” Christie said. “He didn’t want to hear that.”
“In the end, the facts are going to come out, but let’s not kid ourselves,” he later said. “This was a driven-from-the-top process executed by C-team players. And that’s why it looks like a Keystone Cops operation, because it was.”
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“All things that you see were driven from the top. The president made it very clear that he did not want to concede the election…C team players get in there and they tell the boss what he wants to hear,” @GovChristie says on former Pres. Trump, Jan. 6. https://t.co/Arv8B3VJd7 pic.twitter.com/JhooFgWutE
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