Christie: Kerry ‘needs to get some sleep and shut up’
Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie went after Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday for suggesting there was a “rationale” for the attack on the office of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris earlier this year.
“There was a sort of particularized focus and perhaps even a legitimacy in terms of — not a legitimacy, but a rationale that you could attach yourself to somehow and say, OK, they’re really angry because of this and that,” Kerry said.
He then described Friday’s terrorist attacks in Paris as “indiscriminate,” saying there were meant “to attack everything that we do stand for.”
State Department spokesman John Kirby insisted Tuesday night that Kerry “didn’t justify” the Hebdo attacks with his remarks but “simply explained how terrorists tried to.”
“As he said at time, it was a cowardly & despicable act,” Kirby tweeted.
This report was updated at 11:26 a.m.
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