New charges filed against former President and Republican nominee front-runner Donald Trump will likely strengthen the case against him, according to fellow Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie.
The former governor of New Jersey said CNN’s “State of the Union.” that the latest slate of charges, part of a lawsuit over the former president’s alleged efforts to withhold classified documents after leaving the White House, will only strengthen an otherwise solid case. Trump has been indicted on federal charges surrounding his alleged effort to discount verified votes during the 2020 presidential election.
“It’s pretty shameless,” Christie said. “These people are acting like inexperienced Corleones.”
The charges allege that Trump willfully withheld classified documents from the federal government, as well as the reported deletion of video footage from his Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida last year.
“You can’t say there isn’t an underlying potential crime here,” he said. “This is the withholding of confidential classified information from the government after 18 months of asking Donald Trump to voluntarily return it.
Trump’s lawyer, John Lauro, said Sunday that former Vice President Mike Pence is likely to be a key witness in the case regarding allegations of attempts to overturn the 2020 election, although Pence has not yet formally subpoenaed.