Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie joined The Rich Zeoli Show and said the Senate's priority should not be a trial of former President Donald Trump. People are dying and the priority should be dealing with covid not convicting a president who has already left office.
"The Democrats now, in terms of what they're going to do with a trial, you see already that there are some delays. The fact is the new President is going to want his cabinet confirmed, is going to want his agenda worked on. I don't know that doing a trial for someone who has already left office, is the best use of the Senate's time given the crisis that we're in the middle of with COVID."
The former Governor also gave concern on the next crisis that Americans will likely face in the post-COVID world that Congress will also need to step in to help: the addiction crisis.
"The crisis that we're going to face, Rich, which is the drug/addiction crisis. That I worked so hard on with President Trump and we made so much progress on. When we get to the other side of this, that's going to be just as bad, if not worse, than when we started."
Even if a trial were to happen in the Senate against President Trump. Christie does not see a way the former president would be convicted by the 50/50 split in the Senate.
"The Founders made it intentionally hard to get to 67 votes in the Senate. That means they'd have to get 17 Republicans to vote to convict. You know listen, at this point, I don't see how they get there.
Christie concluded, "Now, they haven't presented their case yet, I don't know what the evidence is going to show but all that is going to take time. And we have people dying out there and the fact is we need to have those folks in every aspect of the government focusing on getting us out to the other side of this COVID crisis."
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