Chris Christie predicts Trump will be convicted over 2020 election case

Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie predicted on Tuesday that former President Donald Trump, his chief foe in the primary race, will be convicted in one of the four criminal cases he faces.

Christie claimed the reported immunity deal reached between Mark Meadows, Trump’s former chief of staff, and the Justice Department last week will likely help prosecutors win their case over allegations the former president allegedly attempted to overturn the 2020 election.

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“Everybody’s who watching needs to understand from somebody who did this work for seven years, you don’t give Mark Meadows immunity unless the evidence he has is unimpeachable,” Christie said Tuesday on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. “I want Republican voters to understand this, what’s going to be happening in March. He’s gonna be sitting in a courtroom in Washington, D.C., with Mark Meadows 20 feet away from him saying he committed crimes in front of me on my watch.”

“Look, this is a guy who was Velcro to Trump’s hip for the entire 2020 campaign and all the post-campaign nonsense,” Christie continued. “And so this is deadly. It’s done. He’s going to be convicted. It’s over.”

Special counsel Jack Smith charged Trump with four felonies in August, including conspiracy to defraud the United States and conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding. Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis charged Trump and 17 other co-defendants over similar alleged efforts to overturn the state’s 2020 election results.

Judge Tanya Chutkan set the trial date for the 2020 election interference case for March 4, 2024, right in the thick of the primary contest season and one day before the all-important Super Tuesday, in which the most number of states will hold their primaries or caucuses. Chutkan reinstated a gag order on Trump on Sunday, barring him from attacking witnesses, prosecutors, and court staff.

Christie, however, claimed that Trump wouldn’t be able to delay the trial despite running for president a third time. “I don’t think you can delay it,” he said. “I don’t have the impression that this district court judge in Washington is amenable to delay.”

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“She has not given much at this point into the defense claims for delay,” Christie continued before referencing a separate criminal case Smith brought against Trump for allegedly mishandling classified documents when he left office. “And I think that’s why Jack Smith indicted this case with just Trump, right, because you don’t have multiple defendants. This is it. He has six unindicted co-conspirators not because he doesn’t think they committed crimes but because he learned from the documents case.”

Trump faces 91 indictments across four criminal cases, yet he remains the undisputed leader of the GOP primary race, besting all his rivals often by anywhere from 30 to 60 percentage points. Christie, once a Trump-friendly Republican, has become his chief critic among the 2024 GOP pack, frequently slamming him.