'I'm not afraid of him,' former NJ Gov. Chris Christie says about former President Donald Trump. 'He's a paper tiger.'
, the clear Republican frontrunner. He slammed Trump as a "paper tiger" who has yet to be challenged by the rest of the field, bashed him for ballooning the U.S. deficit and sounded off on Trump's recent remarks about his criminal"You see some of this crazy stuff he said last night," Christie said on CNBC, referring to Trump's latest interview on, when he said he didn't immediately respond to a subpoena for the documents in part because he was "very busy.
"How many rounds of golf has he played in the two and a half years since he left office?" Christie said. Trump has pleaded not guilty to 37 counts including willfully retaining national defense information and conspiracy to obstruct justice. His federal criminal case has been tentatively set to go to trial onPivoting to the economy, Christie said "excessive government spending" was the root cause of recent inflation woes. "We've got to bring spending under control, we've got to reform out entitlement programs," he said.
Christie also rejected the possibility of raising taxes as a way to address the debt. "You have to revitalize the economy to bring more growth, and secondly you have to reduce spending," Christie said. And "we need to deal with Social Security," Christie said, noting that the program is scheduled to be unable to pay full benefits starting in 2034.
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