GOP presidential candidate Chris Christie said former President Trump’s latest attack makes him “really concerned for his mental health.”
“When he says stuff like that about somebody who supported him in 2016, prepared him for the debates with Hillary Clinton, supported him in 2020 and prepared him for the debates with Joe Biden — if I was so useless and dumb and deranged, how did all that stuff happen?” Christie said late Wednesday on Newsmax’s “The Balance” with host Eric Bolling.
“It’s sad. He’s under a lot of stress and a lot of pressure, and saying these things makes me really concerned for his mental health,” Christie added.
Christie was responding to a handful of attacks Trump dished out during a radio interview on the “Hugh Hewitt Show” early Wednesday. Trump called Christie a “crazed lunatic” and took shots at him over his time as New Jersey governor.
“I couldn’t care less. I think he’s not a very smart person,” Trump said when asked about whether he is “afraid” Christie will come after him. “I think he’s a very disturbed person. He and maybe deranged Jack Smith should get together for dinner.”
Christie also said Trump did not think he was unqualified when he asked him to be a part of his administration numerous times.
“I feel bad for Donald. I really do. You know, he’s on there saying that I’m not very smart, that I’m very deranged,” he said.
“Look, he didn’t think that, Eric, in 2018 when he offered the White House chief of staff,” he said. “He didn’t think that in 2016 … when he made me chairman of his transition, he didn’t think that in 2017 when he made me chairman of his opioid commission. He didn’t figure it out when he offered me secretary of Homeland Security twice, and secretary of Labor.”