{"id":1279085,"date":"2022-02-07T15:53:38","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T20:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1279085"},"modified":"2022-02-07T15:53:55","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T20:53:55","slug":"chris-christie-walks-back-claim-trump-incited-january-6-capitol-riot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chris-christie-walks-back-claim-trump-incited-january-6-capitol-riot\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Christie Walks Back Claim Trump &#039;Incited&#039; January 6 Capitol Riot"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchris-christie-walks-back-claim-trump-incited-january-6-capitol-riot%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1279085&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/CC-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) walked back his claim Sunday that then-President Donald Trump \u201cincited\u201d the January 6 Capitol riot, when pressed on the issue by the host during an appearance on Monday\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Hugh Hewitt Show<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>During an appearance on ABC News\u2019&nbsp;<em>This Week<\/em>, Christie <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/week-transcript-22-white-house-national-security-adviser\/story?id=82694754\">declared<\/a>: \u201cAnd let\u2019s face it, let\u2019s call this what it is, January 6th was a riot that was incited by Donald Trump in an effort to intimidate Mike Pence and the Congress into doing exactly what he said in his own words last week, overturn the election.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>On Monday, Hewitt questioned Christie about that claim, and he relented (<a href=\"https:\/\/hughhewitt.com\/chris-christie-on-1-6-2021-and-11-5-24-the-next-presidential-election\/\">transcript<\/a> via&nbsp;<em>Hugh Hewitt Show<\/em>):<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>HH: Now Governor, I, the RNC did a lot of things, and we\u2019ll come back to that. I want to focus on the legal issue that maybe Martha didn\u2019t hear you say. Incite is a legal term. Do you think actual and proximate causation of the riot and the people who trespassed into the Congress, does causation flow to the President, former President?<\/p>\n<p>CC: Look, I think due to his conduct, Hugh, not on January 6th, necessarily, but the conduct from Election Night forward, I think when you\u2019re going to hear testimony from many of those folks who were up there, they\u2019re going to tell you they went there because that\u2019s what Donald Trump told them to do. And so I think he\u2019s got an issue in that regard. There\u2019s no doubt. Now is it a slam dunk? It is not, as is always the case, as you know with these types of issues. But to me, it\u2019s less important as a legal issue than it is as a policy and political issue.<\/p>\n<p>HH: Well, I agree with that, but let\u2019s, you\u2019ve got legal chops. Very few people do. I can talk to you, Pompeo, Cotton and DeSantis about the law. So I want to talk to you about the law. Is he liable? Is he potentially liable for any wrongful death action or damages done to the Capitol in tort?<\/p>\n<p>CC: He\u2019s potentially liable for that, although I think he\u2019s down on the causation chain from the folks who were actually there and committing the acts of violence.<\/p>\n<p>HH: Do you remember Paul\u2019s graph?<\/p>\n<p>CC: Yes.<\/p>\n<p>HH: Okay, where is he on the train track?<\/p>\n<p>CC: (laughing) He\u2019s, look, I think that the conduct that happened was foreseeable given that he is, he\u2019s been telling people you\u2019ve got to fight for your country and go up to Capitol Hill and fight for your country. You know, words matter, Hugh. Words matter under the law. Words matter in politics. And words matter when they come out of the mouth of the president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>HH: Do you think he intended the 725 people who have been charged with one crime or another to break into the Capitol?<\/p>\n<p>CC: I don\u2019t think he intended that specific act, Hugh.<\/p>\n<p>HH: He\u2019s told me he didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>CC: I think what\u2026<\/p>\n<p>HH: He\u2019s told me on the air that he didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>CC: Look, I don\u2019t think he intended that, but I think what he intended, and his words this past week support this, that he was attempting to set up a situation to intimidate Mike Pence and intimidate the members of Congress into voting to overturn the election, his words, overturn the election, Hugh.<\/p>\n<p>HH: Okay, what\u2026<\/p>\n<p>CC: And those are the President\u2019s words.<\/p>\n<p>HH: Was his speech, was his speech protected under the Brandenburg test, which we can explain to the Steelers fans later?<\/p>\n<p>CC: Okay, I believe his speech was protected. I believe his speech was protected. That\u2019s why I say that when you look at the causation chain, him saying the things he was saying from Election Day forward is what causes the problems.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The question of incitement was central to Democrats\u2019 argument against Trump in his second impeachment trial. Trump\u2019s defense team noted that the riot had begun before Trump finished speaking, and that he explicitly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/02\/10\/966396848\/read-trumps-jan-6-speech-a-key-part-of-impeachment-trial\">told<\/a> supporters: \u201cI know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Before the election in 2020, Christie published an op-ed in the&nbsp;<em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/i-should-have-worn-a-mask-11603315968\">blaming<\/a> his own failure to wear a mask at the Trump White House for the fact that he contracted coronavirus, implying the administration was too lax in its precautions, and amplifying a frequent Democratic Party talking point against the president.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of <\/em>Breitbart News Sunday<em> on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Neither-Free-nor-Fair-Presidential-ebook\/dp\/B08PNN54BB\">Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election<\/a>. His recent book, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.centerstreet.com\/titles\/joel-b-pollak\/red-november\/9781546099840\/\">RED NOVEMBER<\/a><em>, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joelpollak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@joelpollak<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) walked back his claim Sunday that then-President Donald Trump \u201cincited\u201d the January 6 Capitol riot, when pressed on the issue by the host &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1279085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1279085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1279085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1279085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1279085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}