Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie , who is running for the Republican presidential nomination, hit back at rival Donald Trump during a Newsmax interview on Thursday evening.
Trump on Wednesday made a number of wild claims during his own interview with the networks Eric Bolling , including repeating his insistence that he could end the war between Russia and Ukraine in 24 hours.
Hes completely full of it, Christie told Bolling. He then offered an example from Trumps own recent history.
Hes going to solve it in 24 hours, the same way he built the wall all across the border of Mexico. In his first four years, he built 52 miles of new wall, Christie pointed out. And the same way Mexico was going to pay for it. They havent paid a peso towards it yet. This is another of these Donald Trump fabrications.
Christie said if Trump did solve the war, it would be by giving Russian President Vladimir Putin control of the situation.
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Getting back to the wall, Christie said Trumps pace would take 110 years to build a wall across the nearly 2,000-mile border.
Bolling pointed to the 2020 pandemic as a reason there was slow progress on the wall.
But Christie wasnt buying it.
Come on, Eric, he said. Eric, stop with the excuses for him, please. Please.
Christie pointed out that the pandemic hit in the final year of the Trump presidency.
So that means in three years he got 14 miles of wall done, 15 miles of wall done a year, he said. Congratulations. You know, at that pace hes going to have to have over a hundred years as president to get it done, so can we stop making excuses for him?
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Hes a big boy now, as much as he complains all the time about how much hes picked on. Can we not have people making excuses for him on that utter failure? Especially from someone whose whole career is about being a builder.
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