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Christie Says Trump Bumbles Immigration Ban; Four AGs Sue

By Cory Allen Heidelberger on 2017-02-01

Like Senator John Thune, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie isn’t a total Trump patsy. In an unexpected news conference yesterday, Governor Christie said that while the President’s heart is in the right place on immigration and national security, his execution stinks:

Christie disagreed with Trump’s initial idea, announced during the campaign, to ban Muslims from entering the country. Trump’s new plan is much narrower, he said, and does not constitute a “Muslim ban,” as many critics have called it. But Christie did concede that the order’s chaotic implementation left it open to mischaracterization.

“I think the president’s intention here is right,” Christie said Tuesday. “His intention is to try protect our country from terrorist attacks and people who mean to do us harm.”

Christie, a former federal prosecutor, added that he has always believed that decisions related to terrorism should be “based on intelligence, not on generalizations.”

“The roll-out of this executive order was terrible. The right people were not involved or consulted,” Christie added. “There was confusion in the enforcement that went on here, so you had people who have gone through the extreme vetting that you have to go through to get a green card to be a permanent resident here who were being detained” [Dustin Racioppi and Nicholas Pugliese, “Christie Breaks Silence with N.J. Media, Talks Trump, Immigration, Bridgegate,” The Record, 2017.01.31].

Attorneys general from Virginia, New York, Washington, and Massachusetts are suing the President over his immigration ban.

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8 Comments

  1. Craig 2017-02-01 09:57

    “New Jersey Governor Chris Christie isn’t a total Trump patsy”

    That is only because he was passed over for the Attorney General position. Until Trump started ignoring him, Christie was his biggest cheerleader and couldn’t find a fault in Trump.

    These people are so pathetic. They act as if they should be commended for speaking out against bad policy, when in reality it is their inaction that has allowed such poor governing to prosper.

  2. Porter Lansing 2017-02-01 10:04

    Our Paranoid POTUS … Sadly, we can surely expect more of this. A main campaign talking point from now President Trump was his perceived foolishness in announcing plans ahead of implementation. He often said, “Why tell Al Quaeda what we’re going to do before we do it. That only allows them to be a step ahead.” Are you old enough to remember Nixon?

  4. bearcreekbat 2017-02-01 11:38

    Poor Trump, his cowardice and fear of so many people undermine any rational policy analysis before he acts. Instead, Trump is so frightened that biologically his actions appear more consistent with the “flight or fight” mode triggered by the hypothalamus than with rational thought.

  6. o 2017-02-01 12:54

    I more now than ever before think that the Democrats need to absolutely follow the GOP playbook: obstruct, fight, resist the president at EVERY level and at EVERY opportunity possible. Use filibusters, votes against, denial of quorums, and sue from Democratic held states to make Trump’s agenda DOA. I would also include not allowing Trump to seat a supreme court justice (in the seat that was Obama’s to fill).

    People said that Washington was broken when the GOP obstructed the Democrat president, but if only the GOP uses these tactics to stop Democrats, then that is not broken, that is strategy – and successful strategy. Now Democrats MUST do that same to demonstrate that Washington is indeed BROKEN. Partisan politics, radical agendas, goofy rules that deny elected leaders to do their jobs (see how many judges beyond the one very public Supreme Court seat Obama was not allowed to fill). Put the system on trial, find it without value, and reform it. Without the absolute failure on both sides, for both parties, it will just be broken for one side – that cannot be allowed happen.

    Cabinet appointments are being green lit for Trump nominees over demonstrated conflicts and ethics issues that Obama nominees like Daschle were denied a cabinet position.

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