New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Monday he would have been blasted in the wake of the Bridgegate scandal if he had done the same as Hillary Clinton, and wiped a private email server clean.
Clinton has repeatedly sparked criticism over the use of her private email server — and the decision to delete tens of thousands of emails from it while under investigation by a Congressional panel — most recently when she joked this past weekend about Snapchat’s ability to make messages instantly disappear.
Christie, who was weighing in on Clinton’s dipping poll numbers, said a key part of the problem is voters dislike her lack of transparency. He also said the attacks on Clinton, which have largely come from Republican candidates but also a few Democratic opponents, are not about politics.
“Why not just answer that question instead of talking all the time like she does on television now about ‘Oh, the politics and the Republicans?’ It’s not about the politics,” he said. Read more on CNN.
I don’t get his point. She is being blasted for this. She has gone from a sure fire democratic nomination to behind in many polls.
No, any Rep[ublican candidate would have been dropped in the blink of an eye. Not given chance after chance to wriggle out of the mess.
#1- There’s a major difference between being “blasted” and being charged with a crime. Scandals come and go. Obama was “blasted” many times for Rev. Wright, ACORN etc but it didn’t derail him. Christie’s point is that this is a scandal of the significance that should completely obliterate a presidential candidacy and perhaps have criminal ramifications. He brings it out well because we can all see that’s exactly what would’ve happened had he deleted his emails.